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483. What’s Wrong With Shortcuts?

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The Power of Statistically Representative Samples

In order to have a 50% chance of two people having the same birthday, you only need 23 people in a room. This is because the number of different pairs that can be formed with 23 people covers over half the possible birthdays in a year.

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