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Some Counting Problems

Written by Simon Bedford in Maths on Tue 11 August 2015. Tags: maths,

I have been looking over some elementary probability recently, and spent some time thinking about a couple of questions that I think have pretty neat solutions.

1. Birthday Problem

The problem is very simply stated, but the answer is counterintuitive to most people.

What is the smallest number of people ...

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