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What's the probability that 3 out of 23 people will share the same birthday?

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What's the probability that 3 out of 23 people will share the same birthday?
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RE: What's the probability that 3 out of 23 people will share the same birthday?
January 24, 2022 at 9:18 pm (This post was last modified: January 24, 2022 at 9:18 pm by brewer.)
(January 24, 2022 at 11:01 am)GrandizerII Wrote: Wild guess. Probably to do with some limitation related to number of decimal places?

If the answer just keeps approaching 0 as you increase the input number, then inevitably you're going to get 0 as the answer with a very large input number like 100 because it can't handle too many decimal places.

Please tell me that handling too many decimals is a euphemism. Hehe
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RE: What's the probability that 3 out of 23 people will share the same birthday? - by brewer - January 24, 2022 at 9:18 pm

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