I just heard about the birthday paradox today that states that given a group of 23 (or more) randomly chosen people, the probability is more than 50% that at least two of them will have the same birthday. You can find this on Wikipedia is you look it up...
My question is this: does anyone know how many people would have to enter for there to be 23 matching bdays in all? I'm not a math person, but this just boggles my mind.
The reason I'm asking is that my work is organizing a STUPID sweepstakes where they want people to enter their bdays and the first 23 instances of the same bday will win those 23 people (with the winning beday) a prize. This just seems DUMB, and some dumb person in sales thought of it without asking the rest of us, and now I don't know what to do.
Anyway, my name is Aurélie and my bday is Oct 26... same bday as late French president Mitterand! How glamorous... sorry for putting such a weird problem out there... thank you for helping me out ↓
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