I lived in the Florida Keys, met my now-wife on the telephone through business dealings when she lived in Calgary Canada, and I took a Greyhound bus to meet her for the first time. Her brother was leery of me, but lightened up when we discovered we shared the same birthday.
I would presume any two random people had a 1:365 chance of sharing the same birthday (maybe that's not right but it sounds right to someone who never took sadistics in college)... BUT....
Is it even POSSIBLE to calculate the stastical probability of this kind of thing happening, calculating in the chance that someone from Calgary would be interested in coming to work for a non-profit in Key West, and the romance developing, and the birthday thing?
I'm ALSO just trying to figure out if it's more likely that this was a random thing, or if it is more likely to have a Larger Intelligence behind it.
2006-07-22 05:52:24 · 10 answers · asked by stupidbushtricks 2 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Mathematics
It was just meant to happen this way for you. My father and I share the same birthday.
2006-07-22 05:58:52 · answer #1 · answered by Bazinga 7 · 4⤊ 0⤋
a million in 365. yet wait, there is extra. what's exceeded off is that you've stumbled on an answer, and then requested what are the probabilities of your looking that answer. once you've a room finished of folk, what are the possibilities that 2 of them may have a similar birthday? relies upon on the kind of folk. someplace round 22 people, the opportunities are 50:50. and they bypass up drastically because the kind of folk develop. say you comprehend 500 people. and also you discover one with your birthday. then you honestly deliver that man or woman to me and ask, "What are the opportunities that we percentage a similar birthday?" you'll have a similar question, no count number which of the 5 hundred people you matched. and no, it would not "have a significantly better Intelligence in the back of it."
2016-10-15 02:05:23 · answer #2 · answered by restrepo 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
1 in 365
2006-07-22 05:55:34 · answer #3 · answered by Wounded duckmate 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Since a year is actually 365 5 hours 48 minutes and 46 seconds long, the odds are NOT 1:365.
Statistics are quite literal and specific, as you may recall from your high school math teacher.
So the odds are actually 1:365.242199
2006-07-22 06:01:42 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
From here:
http://www.sciencenews.org/pages/sn_arc98/11_21_98/mathland.htm
In a group of 23 people, there is a 50-50 chance of two sharing the same birthday.
2006-07-22 05:56:51 · answer #5 · answered by pluralist 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
A woman moved next door to me and her liittle girl was born the same day, month, and year as my little girl and had the same name of my next daughter. They had been friends for many years, went to grade school together and graduated, and were like sisters. Anyway, she died in a car accident and my daughter who shared the same name with her also died of a terminal illness both the same age at their years of age.
2006-07-22 06:06:09 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
There is a formula for it, but I am not sure what it is. It is relatively small, believe it or not, that two people have the same birthday, like one in sixteen.
2006-07-22 05:57:29 · answer #7 · answered by wildbill05733 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
My mom and my sister in law share the same birthday.
2006-07-22 05:55:49 · answer #8 · answered by =)) 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
1 in 365?????????????? one in 365.25?????????????????? no. it is 1 in 366. there are 366 days, period. the fact that feb 29 is less frequent than the other days is irrelevant. there are simply 366 possible days to be born, no more, no less. and just like the roulette wheel has no memory, neither does time
2006-07-22 07:27:12 · answer #9 · answered by iberius 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Dunno 'bout all that math, but there's me and 2 other guys in my office share the same B'day (June 19th). I find that pretty freaky.
2006-07-22 05:58:17 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋