{"id":12575,"date":"2014-02-18T10:18:46","date_gmt":"2014-02-18T16:18:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=12575"},"modified":"2014-02-18T10:18:46","modified_gmt":"2014-02-18T16:18:46","slug":"math-explains-likely-long-shots-miracles-and-winning-the-lottery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=12575","title":{"rendered":"Math Explains Likely Long Shots, Miracles and Winning the Lottery"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>So let&#8217;s look at the probability that none of the 23 people in the room share the same birthday. For two people, the probability that the second person doesn&#8217;t have the same birthday as the first is 364\/365. Then the probability that those two are different and that a third doesn&#8217;t share the same birthday as either of them is 364\/365 \u00d7 363\/365. Likewise, the probability that those three have different birthdays and that the fourth does not share the same birthday as any of those first three is 364\/365 \u00d7 363\/365 \u00d7 362\/365. Continuing like this, the probability that none of the 23 people share the same birthday is 364\/365 \u00d7 363\/365 \u00d7 362\/365 \u00d7 361\/365 \u2026 \u00d7 343\/365.<\/p>\n<p>This equals 0.49<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scientificamerican.com\/article\/math-explains-likely-long-shots-miracles-and-winning-the-lottery\/\">Math Explains Likely Long Shots, Miracles and Winning the Lottery &#8211; Scientific American<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So let&#8217;s look at the probability that none of the 23 people in the room share the same birthday. For two people, the probability that the second person doesn&#8217;t have the same birthday as the first is 364\/365. Then the &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=12575\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[737],"tags":[180,1148],"class_list":["post-12575","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-stem","tag-math","tag-probability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12575","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12575"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12575\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12576,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12575\/revisions\/12576"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12575"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12575"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12575"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}