Problem 1272. The almost-birthday problem.
This is a harder version of the birthday problem. Now, you will have to determine the probability that two or more people in a randomly assembled group of n people are having their birthdays within d days of each other. As usual, ignore the leap year and assume that every day is equally probable.
Solution Stats
Problem Comments
Solution Comments
Show commentsProblem Recent Solvers24
Suggested Problems
-
Remove all the words that end with "ain"
2224 Solvers
-
Maximum running product for a string of numbers
2142 Solvers
-
161 Solvers
-
Circular Primes (based on Project Euler, problem 35)
479 Solvers
-
Try 1.5.4: Celsius to Fahrenheit
797 Solvers
More from this Author13
Problem Tags
Community Treasure Hunt
Find the treasures in MATLAB Central and discover how the community can help you!
Start Hunting!