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Old 07-25-2005, 08:00 PM
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Default Re: A birthday puzzle

ok, I get it now. I was confused over the meaning of the phrase "The first person in line who..."

It evidently means, The First "first person in line" who ...

I took it to mean that if at any time, any person in line has a birthday matching one of the ticket purchasers, then the First such person in line wins the ticket. With a billion people in line almost certainly one of them will match the first ticket purchaser. I figured the birthday would be announced on a loudspeaker, there would be about 2,740,000 people in line with matching birthdays raising their hands, and the First of them in line would get the ticket.

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