10 Dec
2020
10 Dec
'20
2:13 a.m.
Sorta relevant to both groups...
Augusta Ada King-Noel, Countess of Lovelace (and daughter of Lord Byron),
was born on this day in 1815; arguably the world's first computer
programmer and a highly independent woman, she saw the potential in
Charles Babbage's new-fangled invention.
J.F.Ossanna was given unto us on this day in 1928; a prolific programmer,
he not only had a hand in developing Unix but also gave us the ROFF
series.
Who'ld've thought that two computer greats would share the same birthday?
-- Dave
10 Dec
10 Dec
5:38 a.m.
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On Thursday, 10 December 2020 at 7:13:11 +1100, Dave Horsfall wrote:
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%.
Greg
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12 Dec
12 Dec
2:39 p.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%.
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