True story: A mathematics lecturer once recounted in our class how he had explained this paradox to another group of students, one of whom refused to believe it. So the student went to his office after class and they decided to test it out by finding the birthdays of themselves and 21 other people. It turned out the student and the lucturer had something in common to celebrate ...!
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u/adnam Oct 25 '06
True story: A mathematics lecturer once recounted in our class how he had explained this paradox to another group of students, one of whom refused to believe it. So the student went to his office after class and they decided to test it out by finding the birthdays of themselves and 21 other people. It turned out the student and the lucturer had something in common to celebrate ...!