Reposting as i get an error when pulling it up

[fastupslowdown]

Cute math problem for the next club ride:
How many cyclists must be on the club ride before the odds of two riders having the same birthday hits 50% -Mike G

[sk_tle]

Cute math problem for the next club ride:
How many cyclists must be on the club ride before the odds of two riders having the same birthday hits 50% -Mike G

23

I am more interested at what in your original post create that error on the forum engine ha ha.

[Piledhigher]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Birthday_problem

[monadnocky]

People literally don't believe me when I tell them the answer to this, sometimes even after explaining the math.
Even more odd, it's practically 100% (99.999%) probability of a shared birthday for a group of 100.
Veridical paradoxes, man.

[Tom]

I guess the percent sign not followed by two characters that represent hex for another character?

[fastupslowdown]

https://statisticsbyjim.com/fun/birthday-problem/

[fastupslowdown]

Also, notice on the chart that a group of 57 has a probability of 0.99.

[j44ke]

And if you’d rather have the goat?

[cp43]

And if you’d rather have the goat?

Relevant XKCD: https://xkcd.com/1282/