Comments on: Understanding the Birthday Paradox http://betterexplained.com/articles/understanding-the-birthday-paradox/ Learning shouldn't hurt. Let's share the insights that made difficult ideas click. Fri, 10 Sep 2010 15:29:12 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: The Birthday Paradox in Clojure « citizen428.blog() http://betterexplained.com/articles/understanding-the-birthday-paradox/#comment-308093 The Birthday Paradox in Clojure « citizen428.blog() Fri, 13 Aug 2010 16:44:16 +0000 http://betterexplained.com/articles/understanding-the-birthday-paradox/#comment-308093 [...] don't really find this counter-intuitive, but as Kalid from BetterExplained accurately observed "exponents aren't intuitive" and "humans are a tad bit selfish". Here's a quote regarding that last [...] [...] don't really find this counter-intuitive, but as Kalid from BetterExplained accurately observed "exponents aren't intuitive" and "humans are a tad bit selfish". Here's a quote regarding that last [...]

]]> By: The corrector http://betterexplained.com/articles/understanding-the-birthday-paradox/#comment-306388 The corrector Fri, 18 Jun 2010 11:49:49 +0000 http://betterexplained.com/articles/understanding-the-birthday-paradox/#comment-306388 This is not a paradox. This is a simple math problem, and its title confuses people into thinking that something impossible is happening, when its not, they are just being confused by an incorrectly named title of a principal. This is not a paradox. This is a simple math problem, and its title confuses people into thinking that something impossible is happening, when its not, they are just being confused by an incorrectly named title of a principal.

]]> By: The corrector http://betterexplained.com/articles/understanding-the-birthday-paradox/#comment-306387 The corrector Fri, 18 Jun 2010 11:43:14 +0000 http://betterexplained.com/articles/understanding-the-birthday-paradox/#comment-306387 Please stop confusing people. Let's stop the confusion all over the world with this annoyingly wrong principal. I don't mean computatively wrong. I mean, it is wrong to call it the birthday principal. It is a number principal with 365 set numbers principal. This problem has been confusing people for the longest time, because no one will explain that it does not do what people think it is supposed to do. Which is calculate the odds that 365 people in a room will find someone else with their birthday. The problem itself is actually very easy to understand. Even I can understand it and I never learned any advanced math. The equation is cheating. It has nothing to do with any applicable birthdays. There is no reason to delete each match after it is made. Please stop confusing people. Let’s stop the confusion all over the world with this annoyingly wrong principal. I don’t mean computatively wrong. I mean, it is wrong to call it the birthday principal. It is a number principal with 365 set numbers principal.

This problem has been confusing people for the longest time, because no one will explain that it does not do what people think it is supposed to do. Which is calculate the odds that 365 people in a room will find someone else with their birthday.

The problem itself is actually very easy to understand. Even I can understand it and I never learned any advanced math. The equation is cheating. It has nothing to do with any applicable birthdays. There is no reason to delete each match after it is made.

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