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How many of your Facebook friends have a birthday on Valentine’s Day ?

The problem is to compute the approximate probability that in a room of n people, at least two have the same birthday. For simplicity, disregard variations in the distribution, such as leap years, twins, seasonal variations, etc., and assume that the 365 possible birthdays are equally likely. Real-life birthday distributions are not uniform since not […]

Homophobia is becoming bad for business – about time !

Companies like JC Penney and Kraft with its Oreo brand have recently supported same-sex relationships and homosexuality in their advertising campaigns, and the only real backlash seems to have come from hate groups like One Million Moms and the odd moron on Facebook. Since even a majority of Americans supports same-sex relationships, companies are starting […]