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Comment by vapemaster

4 years ago

i always heard it called the birthday problem: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Birthday_problem

[weirdly, someone discovered an birthday overlap today at work and i just re-google/wiki'd this today]

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bee_rider  4 years ago

Huh, what are the odds that the same mathematical concept will come up in conversation twice on one day? We have invented the Synchronicity paradox, er, problem.

  • ithkuil  4 years ago

    Baader–Meinhof phenomenon or frequency illusion.

    Sadly nobody called it baader-meinhof paradox.