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The Birthday Paradox: Why You're More Likely to Share a Birthday Than You Think
TLDR The hosts discuss the birthday paradox, a math problem where you need a group of 23 people for there to be a chance that two of them share a birthday. As the number of people increases, the probability of sharing a birthday exponentially increases, with a greater than 99.9% chance when there are 70 people in a room.
Timestamped Summary
00:00
The hosts discuss the birthday paradox and share a personal story about finding out they share a birthday.
02:10
The hosts discuss the odds of sharing birthdays with someone and how it increases exponentially as more people are added to a room.
04:09
The hosts discuss how most people don't understand the birthday problem and how mathematicians are better at calculating things exponentially.
06:12
The birthday paradox is a math problem where you need a group of 23 people for there to be a chance that two of them share a birthday.
08:32
With 23 people in a room, there is a 50.17% chance that two of them will share the same birthday.
11:00
When there are 70 people in a room, there is a greater than 99.9% chance that two of them will share a birthday.
13:21
The episode ends with some ads and promotions for other podcasts and products.
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Society & Culture
