12 Dec
2020
12 Dec
'20
8:39 a.m.
On Thu, 10 Dec 2020, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote:
Not only am I familiar with that (I majored in Mathematics), I also know
about the timezone problem i.e. when did a certain event occur?
And anyway, I was not talking about two people chosem at random, if you'd
actually read what I wrote.
I try to use the local timezone where possible, but sometimes I have to
guess; what do you do?
-- Dave
Who'ld've thought that two computer greats would share the same
birthday?
I, for one. This is the subject of the "birthday problem",
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Birthday_problem, though it's not clear
where there's a problem. Take any 23 people and the chance of two of
them having the same birthday is 50%.