Playing with Birthday Paradox!

Enter your B'day in this note, and see how many people have the same date, irrespective of years. The group having the maximum number of members wins!

Note by Swapnil Das
5 years, 6 months ago

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Comments

December 1st

Andrew Ellinor - 5 years, 6 months ago

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Happy Birthday

Kushagra Sahni - 5 years, 6 months ago

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Haha, you got it :)

Swapnil Das - 5 years, 6 months ago

here is what i found november as of 30th 2015 7:20 gmt +6 jjanuary=2february=1march=2april=1may=2june=3july=5august=3semtember=2october=3november=5(highest)december=3\begin{array}{c}jjanuary=2\\ february=1\\ march=2\\ april=1\\ may=2\\ june=3\\ july=5\\ august=3\\ semtember=2\\ october=3\\ november=5(highest)\\ december=3\end{array} all numbers above are Fibonacci, and if you want to have a great chance of having a mathematical child, wait till february(9 months before nov and also coincidently the month when valentine is)

Aareyan Manzoor - 5 years, 6 months ago

6th December

Dev Sharma - 5 years, 6 months ago

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Same date as RMO!

A Former Brilliant Member - 5 years, 6 months ago

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Yeah.

Dev Sharma - 5 years, 6 months ago

2nd October

Nihar Mahajan - 5 years, 6 months ago

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You are a great patriot :P

Swapnil Das - 5 years, 6 months ago

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You are a high profile physicist :3

Nihar Mahajan - 5 years, 6 months ago

A very happy birthday!!

Nashita Rahman - 4 years, 8 months ago

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Thank you both of you! 😀

Nihar Mahajan - 4 years, 8 months ago

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@Nihar Mahajan Happy b'day!

Are you giving rmo this year?

Harsh Shrivastava - 4 years, 8 months ago

Happy Birthday bro!

Swapnil Das - 4 years, 8 months ago

25th25^{th} may

Atul Shivam - 5 years, 6 months ago

15thOctober15^{\text{th}}\text{October} (Same as Late Dr. APJ Abdul Kalam)

Akhil Bansal - 5 years, 6 months ago

December the 5th

Sharky Kesa - 5 years, 6 months ago

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Now, Me and @Sharky Kesa form a group! I hope Heisenberg was in Brilliant :P

Swapnil Das - 5 years, 6 months ago

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Where's Einstein?

Nihar Mahajan - 5 years, 6 months ago

Hahhahha :D

Պոոռնապռագնյա ՊՌ - 5 years, 6 months ago

Bingo!

Swapnil Das - 5 years, 6 months ago

17 May!

Sandeep Bhardwaj - 5 years, 6 months ago

My birthday : 5th December.

Swapnil Das - 5 years, 6 months ago

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Walt Disney! That's y u r like a cartoon(no offence) :P

Aditya Kumar - 5 years, 6 months ago

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LOL.

But these 4 Physicists make sense :

Check their B'days and have your jaws open :P

Swapnil Das - 5 years, 6 months ago

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@Swapnil Das I was born on the 100th anniversary of Heisenberg's birth. Swapnil was born on the 99th anniversary.

Sharky Kesa - 5 years, 6 months ago

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@Sharky Kesa LOL , haha

Nihar Mahajan - 5 years, 6 months ago

@Swapnil Das I was not shocked at all... You are a high profile physicist yourself :3

Satyajit Ghosh - 5 years, 6 months ago

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@Satyajit Ghosh LOL, I'm not as of now, I aspire to become one :P

Swapnil Das - 5 years, 6 months ago

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@Swapnil Das You'll surely become one. Btw which line are you most interested in?

Satyajit Ghosh - 5 years, 6 months ago

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@Satyajit Ghosh Line here means job?

Swapnil Das - 5 years, 6 months ago

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@Swapnil Das If yes, then I only have one interest, I want to become a mathematical physicist.

Swapnil Das - 5 years, 6 months ago

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@Swapnil Das Nice you will surely become one.

Satyajit Ghosh - 5 years, 6 months ago

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@Satyajit Ghosh Thanks for your wishes :)

Swapnil Das - 5 years, 6 months ago

@Swapnil Das Yeah in which you want to do research.

Satyajit Ghosh - 5 years, 6 months ago

@Swapnil Das Just like Heisenberg's uncertainty principle. You r also very uncertain. :P

Aditya Kumar - 5 years, 6 months ago

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@Aditya Kumar LOLOLOLOL...

Atul Shivam - 5 years, 6 months ago

@Aditya Kumar LOL, BTW please post your b'day here.

Swapnil Das - 5 years, 6 months ago

I guess you share your birthday with sharky.

Satyajit Ghosh - 5 years, 6 months ago

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Bingo! B'day Paradox at work.

Swapnil Das - 5 years, 6 months ago

4th October

A Former Brilliant Member - 5 years, 6 months ago

14th November

Siddharth Singh - 5 years, 6 months ago

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You are a forever child :P

Swapnil Das - 5 years, 6 months ago

30th June

Rakshit Joshi - 5 years, 6 months ago

28th28^{th} october

Rohit Udaiwal - 5 years, 6 months ago

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Same as Bill Gates. :) Lol

Sachin Vishwakarma - 5 years, 6 months ago

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Lol even Indra Nooyi!

Rohit Udaiwal - 5 years, 6 months ago

4th November

Harsh Shrivastava - 5 years, 6 months ago

24thFebruary24^{\text{th}}\text{February}

A Former Brilliant Member - 5 years, 6 months ago

4th January

Satyajit Ghosh - 5 years, 6 months ago

4th December

Archiet Dev - 5 years, 6 months ago

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Ahh, you missed me by one day bro !

Swapnil Das - 5 years, 6 months ago

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Ha hah ha...

Archiet Dev - 5 years, 6 months ago

24 November

Naman Kapoor - 5 years, 6 months ago

14 July

Abdur Rehman Zahid - 5 years, 6 months ago

27th june

Shreyansh Choudhary - 5 years, 6 months ago

I was born on the date when Neptune was discovered.

Aditya Kumar - 5 years, 6 months ago

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September 23 :)

Swapnil Das - 5 years, 6 months ago

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Yeah! There's one more thing that's special about that sate. Have a guess.

Aditya Kumar - 5 years, 6 months ago

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@Aditya Kumar Lol, Earth was expected to end this year on September 23.

Swapnil Das - 5 years, 6 months ago

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@Swapnil Das No. That was on 22 dec

Aditya Kumar - 5 years, 6 months ago

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@Aditya Kumar Don't know then :(

Swapnil Das - 5 years, 6 months ago

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@Swapnil Das On that day including 21 march the number of hours of day= number of hours of night! That's the onset of winter!

Aditya Kumar - 5 years, 6 months ago

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@Aditya Kumar Damn! SST kills.

Swapnil Das - 5 years, 6 months ago

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@Swapnil Das I liked geography a lot.

Aditya Kumar - 5 years, 6 months ago

19 august

Devansh Shah - 5 years, 6 months ago

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My mother has hers on the same date as yours.

Kushagra Sahni - 5 years, 6 months ago

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Then request your mother to join Brilliant :P

Swapnil Das - 5 years, 6 months ago

8th January.The same as the great Stephen Hawking's Birthday!

Anik Mandal - 5 years, 6 months ago

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The same as Galileo's death.

Sharky Kesa - 5 years, 6 months ago

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LOL yes

Swapnil Das - 5 years, 6 months ago

Close to mine "2 jan"

harish ghunawat - 5 years, 4 months ago

Great!

Swapnil Das - 5 years, 6 months ago

18 july

Julian Poon - 5 years, 6 months ago

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Julyan :3

Nihar Mahajan - 5 years, 6 months ago

So Close to mine (14th July) !!!

Abdur Rehman Zahid - 5 years, 6 months ago

31st March

Anuj Shikarkhane - 5 years, 6 months ago

13th April

A Former Brilliant Member - 5 years, 6 months ago

17th June. No one. :(

Sachin Vishwakarma - 5 years, 6 months ago

20th july

Sahil Kamble - 5 years, 6 months ago

November 7.

Mursalin Habib - 5 years, 6 months ago

7th july

Aareyan Manzoor - 5 years, 6 months ago

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Close to mine (14th July)!!!

Abdur Rehman Zahid - 5 years, 6 months ago

September 14

Kushal Patankar - 5 years, 6 months ago

August 29

Agnishom Chattopadhyay - 5 years, 6 months ago

12th May

Adarsh Kumar - 5 years, 6 months ago

22

Shubhankur Kumar - 5 years, 6 months ago

11th August

Gwen Roberts - 5 years, 6 months ago

20th December.

Kushagra Sahni - 5 years, 6 months ago

18thOctober18^{th}October

Akshat Sharda - 5 years, 6 months ago

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A very happy birthday !!

Nashita Rahman - 4 years, 8 months ago

Happy B'day!

Swapnil Das - 4 years, 8 months ago

6th April

Nicole Tay - 5 years, 6 months ago

3rd November

Sezan Ahmed - 5 years, 6 months ago

2nd December

Amritanshu Kumar - 5 years, 6 months ago

July 23

Mohamed Yahia - 5 years, 4 months ago

April 15th. All alone :(

Colin Carmody - 5 years, 4 months ago

10 June

Sangamesh Rk - 5 years, 4 months ago

Feb 23

Geoff Pilling - 5 years ago

4th July

Ojas Singh Malhi - 3 years, 9 months ago

April 26

Michael Wang - 3 years, 2 months ago

17 th March

Ram Mohith - 3 years, 2 months ago

April 20th (Same as Hitler's)

Mohammad Farhat - 1 year, 12 months ago

4th November

Rohit Ner - 5 years, 6 months ago

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@Harsh Shrivastava @Rohit Ner Same day!

Your group has two members now, lets see if it grows :P

Swapnil Das - 5 years, 6 months ago

Well, you & @Harsh Shrivastava share your birthday with the human computer- Shakuntala Devi...!!!!!

Archiet Dev - 5 years, 6 months ago

@Rohit Ner . it shows you are a psychological King... Is it so ?

A Former Brilliant Member - 5 years, 6 months ago

27th May

Ra Sunag - 5 years, 6 months ago

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hey it's close to mine!!! 25thmay"“25^{th}may"

Atul Shivam - 5 years, 6 months ago

What "group" am I in? Is every date a group? Is a group a month?

Gwen Roberts - 5 years, 6 months ago

April 18. An astrologer. :)

Krishna Shankar - 5 years, 6 months ago

April 10th

Peter Michael - 5 years, 5 months ago

October 23rd !

Nashita Rahman - 4 years, 8 months ago

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Thanks :)

Swapnil Das - 4 years, 8 months ago

Hey, that's this year's RMO date in Odisha!

Swapnil Das - 4 years, 8 months ago

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That's great......and thanks for what??

Nashita Rahman - 4 years, 8 months ago

So All the best for your RMO exam :)

Nashita Rahman - 4 years, 8 months ago

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@Nashita Rahman Thanks. Delighted to know you too want to become a physicist.

Swapnil Das - 4 years, 8 months ago

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@Swapnil Das Thanks but How do you know??...I want to become a physics professor because I love teaching and I'll also go with research. Even I am happy to know that you too want to become a physicist!

Nashita Rahman - 4 years, 8 months ago

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@Nashita Rahman Your profile says so. In which class are you?

Swapnil Das - 4 years, 8 months ago

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@Swapnil Das Okay:).... I am in class 12 and you?

Nashita Rahman - 4 years, 8 months ago

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@Nashita Rahman 10 :)

Swapnil Das - 4 years, 8 months ago

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@Swapnil Das Best of Luck for your 10 board exams! Study hard and I am sure you'll get amazing results!!

Nashita Rahman - 4 years, 8 months ago

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@Nashita Rahman Thanks a lot! Same to you for 12th Boards, JEE and other exams :)

Swapnil Das - 4 years, 8 months ago

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@Swapnil Das Thanks.......:)

Nashita Rahman - 4 years, 8 months ago

@Swapnil Das Thanks.....

Nashita Rahman - 4 years, 8 months ago

august 1

Kaustubh Miglani - 5 years, 6 months ago

here is a questoin related to this paradox.in a room of 23 people,how much percent is the chance that at least two people will have same birthdays?

Kaustubh Miglani - 5 years, 6 months ago

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50.2%. It seems paradoxical but it's true.

Sharky Kesa - 5 years, 6 months ago

What probability it will be that a person has birthday on 29 Feb in a room of 23.

Satyajit Ghosh - 5 years, 6 months ago

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23/1461

Owen Gunning - 2 years, 2 months ago

30th of February(Troll)

Lai Hong Chiu - 5 years, 6 months ago

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Damn, you never age.

Sharky Kesa - 5 years, 6 months ago
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