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07-25-2005, 12:52 PM

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Re: A birthday puzzle

Hrm. I took about 3 minutes to write a simple 20 line program to simulate this. Ran a quick 100,000 trial a couple times and the best spot seemed to average out to somewhere between 24.6 - 24.7. I wonder what I screwed up.

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