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Birthday Paradox

The Birthday Paradox was mentioned in the Shirky book to illustrate how the links of a network can grow exponentially larger than the number of users. Lang diagrammed it by the number of lines it took to connect 5 dots and how many more lines there were when we tried 8 dots.

Anyways, the birthday paradox states that in a group of 36 people, there is an 80 percent chance that 2 people have the same birthday. It seems our class proves that point quite well. Out of the 18 students and 4 instructors (only 22 people), Ken and Joel have the same birthday. today. Happy Birthday guys! =)

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2 Responses to “Birthday Paradox”

  1. Karl Lang Says:
    March 24th, 2009 at 2:23 pm

    Glad to know that the birthday paradox theory applies to our small class as well. Thanks for pointing that out.

  2. Joel Peabody Says:
    March 26th, 2009 at 11:38 am

    Thanks for the birthday wish!

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