I lived in the Florida Keys, met my now-wife on the telephone through business dealings when she lived in Calgary Canada. After three months of a developing telephone relationship, I took a Greyhound bus for $100 from Big Pine Key, Florida to Brooks, Alberta 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 05:53:48 · 10 answers · asked by stupidbushtricks 2 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Mathematics
it's very rare i think. You'll probably have to take 1 divide by the population or something, or find out firstly the probabilty of a person living in that area having that birthday etc etc. But my mathematics isn't good enough but i can tell you it's really rare. You can try getting a Maths expert to help you.
2006-07-22 05:58:54 · answer #1 · answered by Forest_aude 3 · 3⤊ 0⤋
365 /365^2 = 1/365 I Explaination: their are 365 ways that people can have the same birthday (excluding leap year) and there are 133225 different combinations of birthdays two people can have. Now that is probablity not odds. The odds are 1:364. (the amount of times the event happens/ The number of times it doesn't happen)
2006-07-22 16:15:59 · answer #2 · answered by sgcfx949 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
1 in 365 or 366 every 4 years. With 6 billion people on the planet that makes it 16 and half million others share your birthday.
2006-07-22 05:56:31 · answer #3 · answered by Gingerbread Man 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Probably 1 in 365, that is pretty amazing. Well, you do share your birthday with like 1,000,000 people :).
2006-07-22 06:01:34 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
How fun for you. Going deep and all, 1 in 365 is about right, I'd say.
2006-07-22 05:58:30 · answer #5 · answered by just visiting 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
365 to 1
Except leap years.
I recommend taking statistics in college, then again I never took sadistics - that could have been an interesting class.
2006-07-22 05:57:36 · answer #6 · answered by jjttkbford 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The chance that two people are born on the same day is 1 to 365.25, because there are 365.25 days in a year.
(4 times 0,25 days make a leap day.)
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2006-07-22 06:10:25 · answer #7 · answered by Thermo 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think it's just random.
My best friend's mom and I share the same birthdate, aside from the year of course.
2006-07-22 07:58:58 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
its one in 365, so very common indeed
2006-07-22 05:56:22 · answer #9 · answered by welsh_witch_sally 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
marry eachother even if yous are both men>>>>>everything will go well!
2006-07-22 05:57:20 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋