Marrying your sister.

[BrilloPad]

Is that the hefty tome I saw in the bookshop? It scares me.
I read "The Emperors New Mind" and that was difficult enough. I wish I had done a pure maths degree now.

What degree did you do? General maths?

At Exeter, you could pick units from pure/applied/stats in final year. I did 5 applied and 1 stats. pure always seemed so pointless e.g. principa mathmatica takes 365 pages to prove that 1+1=2.

[sasguru]

What degree did you do? General maths?

At Exeter, you could pick units from pure/applied/stats in final year. I did 5 applied and 1 stats. pure always seemed so pointless e.g. principa mathmatica takes 365 pages to prove that 1+1=2.

No. I did a Computer Science degree, much to my regret nowadays. And then a bulltulip Business masters

[thunderlizard]

if you toss a coin enough times and the results veer away from 0.5, then tossing the coin more times won't bring the results back to 0.5. I honestly can't remember the details of that one, but that lecturer set his HP programmable calculator on the job for the length of the lecture to prove that point.

Can anyone else here remember similar?

well that just feels like common sense to me. In order to "correct" the results of its previous tossings, the coin would have to "remember" what they were, which, being a simple creature, it won't.

[Ruprect]

Actually no. If you take just 23 people, the odds of two of them having the same birthday is about 0.5. Strange but true.

in the same year? b0ll0x.

[Ruprect]

I think you're thinking about the "random walk". But the law of large numbers means that it will veer back to 0.5 eventually, theoretically after an infinite amount of tosses.

Appropriate for you SAS to be talking about an infinite amount of tosses.

No offence like, but you teed it up.

[BrilloPad]

in the same year? b0ll0x.

it is true. google it.

[sasguru]

it is true. google it.

No he's right...not in the same year.
And as for your last post Mr. Ruprecht, there's nothing wrong with Madam Palm and her five lovely daughters I'll have you know ...

[sasguru]

and now I'm off to watch that travesty of history, U571

[xoggoth]

an infinite amount of tosses

Getting there.

[thunderlizard]

Not in the same year. (unless it's people in a womb, not people in a room).

chances of 2 people having same birthday: 1/365
Number of combinations of 2 people in a set of 23 people: 22+21+20...+3+2+1 = 253.
So chance of at least one of those combinations having same birthday = 253/365 = 69%