The Birthday Paradox

<p>If you have a group of people in a room, how many do you need to for it to be more likely than not, that two or more will have the same birthday?</p> <p><img alt="" src="https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:770/0*gwQxFT7M7r8waJ72" style="height:467px; width:700px" /></p> <p>Photo by&nbsp;<a href="https://unsplash.com/@socialcut?utm_source=medium&amp;utm_medium=referral" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">S O C I A L . C U T</a>&nbsp;on&nbsp;<a href="https://unsplash.com/?utm_source=medium&amp;utm_medium=referral" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">Unsplash</a></p> <p>Theoretically, the chances of two people having the same birthday are 1 in 365 (not accounting for leap years and the uneven distribution of birthdays across the year), and so odds are you&rsquo;ll only meet a handful of people in your life who enjoy the same birthday as you. This leads many people to intuitively guess around 180.</p> <p><a href="https://towardsdatascience.com/the-birthday-paradox-ec71357d45f3"><strong>Read More</strong></a></p>