The Birthday Problem


	A famous problem in elementary probability is to compute the likelihood that two people in a room with people have the same birthday. Here we adopt the common simplifying assumptions that the birthdays in the room are drawn independently and at random from a 365-day year. Use the slider to adjust the number of people in the room.


	Contributed by: Chris Boucher
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Birthday Problem (Wolfram MathWorld)

"The Birthday Problem" from The Wolfram Demonstrations Project
http://demonstrations.wolfram.com/TheBirthdayProblem/

Contributed by: Chris Boucher

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