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Re: amarillo slim\'s favorite bet
He wrote about thirty in his book.
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Re: amarillo slim\'s favorite bet
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I was under the impression that Amarillo Slim performed this bet with 30 people, not 25. I think this increases the odds to about %72. [/ QUOTE ] 70.6%, assuming 365 equally likely b-days. Here are some other stats: mean: 24.6 median: 23 mode: 20 The mean is the expected value, or the arithmetic average of the number of people it takes to get a match if we repeated this experiment over and over with different people. The median is the number of people it takes to get a match 50% of the time (actually 50.7% here). The mode is the most likely number of people it takes to get a match, or the most common number that results in a match. |
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