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  2. Birthday problem - Wikipedia

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    The birthday paradox is a veridical paradox: it seems wrong at first glance but is, in fact, true. While it may seem surprising that only 23 individuals are required to reach a 50% probability of a shared birthday, this result is made more intuitive by considering that the birthday comparisons will be made between every possible pair of ...

  3. Cheryl's Birthday - Wikipedia

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    Cheryl's Birthday" is a logic puzzle, specifically a knowledge puzzle. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] The objective is to determine the birthday of a girl named Cheryl using a handful of clues given to her friends Albert and Bernard.

  4. List of paradoxes - Wikipedia

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    Bertrand's box paradox: A paradox of conditional probability closely related to the Boy or Girl paradox. Bertrand's paradox: Different common-sense definitions of randomness give quite different results. Birthday paradox: In a random group of only 23 people, there is a better than 50/50 chance two of them have the same birthday.

  5. The Most Common Birthday Might Surprise You - AOL

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    1.1 Alternative solution to Birthday Paradox. 4 comments. 1.2 math question. 6 comments. 1.3 Why solving problems like, "P versus NP" and others. 7 comments.

  7. Solve this birthday riddle with a little logic and math power

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  8. Birthday attack - Wikipedia

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    A birthday attack is a bruteforce collision attack that exploits the mathematics behind the birthday problem in probability theory. This attack can be used to abuse communication between two or more parties. The attack depends on the higher likelihood of collisions found between random attack attempts and a fixed degree of permutations ...

  9. Category:Probability theory paradoxes - Wikipedia

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    Berkson's paradox; Bertrand paradox (probability) Bertrand's box paradox; Birthday problem; Borel–Kolmogorov paradox; Boy or girl paradox; E. Ellsberg paradox;