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Daily Archives: August 26, 2010
Birthday simulations using Python and Numpy
I’ve written previously about the probability of finding a shared birthday in a room full of people. I wanted to run some simulations on this using Python. As an aside, you’ll find some of the techniques below bear a similarity … Continue reading