Who Shares Your Birthday?
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In case you have a strange new desire to get an IOTBS shirt: http://store.dftba.com/collect....ions/its-okay-to-be-
See if you share a famous birthday (I got Tom Hiddleston): http://www.buzzfeed.com/kimber....leydadds/which-celeb
Explore the math behind Birthday Paradox #1: https://www.khanacademy.org/ma....th/probability/proba
Explore Birthday Paradox #2: http://www.trans4mind.com/pers....onal_development/mat
The “Facebook Birthday Problem” is a variant of the Coupon Collector’s Problem: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/....Coupon_collector%27s
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