Problem idea (Birthday matching)
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Hello!
According to ,,Suggest a problem" topic, I would like to highlight this wikipedia article.
I am sticking to 1st point which says Even problem idea could be enough.
I have heard about it when teacher was having a discussion with my classmate about security. (I wasn't really paying attention) But he opened wikipedia and showed this to us and with connection with word problem, I rememberd of codeabbey :) I hope this will result in new problem task.
Radovan, Hi!
Thanks for your suggestion and sorry for delaying with answer. Really this is a known and funny trick, so it would be wonderful to add the problem based on this fact.
However as I scratched my head on various sides I still can't wring my brain about the idea to come up with something impressive. It seems that just asking people to calculate probability for given amount of people and days in a year won't be puzzling enough. On the other hand if we extend the problem to allow uneven probabilities (which is more real) - well, I don't know how to solve it myself yet :)
So I put your suggestion into my problem idea list - hopefully I will see its implementation one day :)
Hello Rodion! (and others reading this)
Thanks for your answer! I belive it is really hard to think of problem by simply reading a wiki article so I understand that this is really tricky situation hehe. I just wanted to propse an idea. I was thinking yesterday about my own programs and I got an idea for another possible problem (this time with an idea of problem statement!). I shall make a new post about that. Anyway I am glad that this ,,branch" may possibly be implemented in future!