Saturday, April 30, 2005
Birthdays...
Did you know that if you have a room of 35 people, there is a greater probability that two of those people will share a birthday than not? It's easily provable ... to do so, you actually have to look at the probability that no two people in the room have the same birthday, and then subtract your answer from one. That's why I'm a mathematician. I love it!! :-)
When I was in the 6th grade, there was a group of five girls that were in the same class and we hung out together (whatever that means for 6th graders...) Of the 5 of us, three of us shared a birthday. Weird, huh?
Currently, one of my very best friends and I share our birthday. She also happens to be an adopted child. She was born in China and adopted by an American family. We like to tease people that we meet by telling them that we are twins who were separated at birth and adopted by different families. (Keep in mind that she is Chinese and I'm not.) AND, I also have a colleague who shares his birhtday with me. AND, it often happens that one of my students shares my birthday. EVEN Willie Nelson, Cloris Leachman and Kirsten Dunst share my birthday with me!
Isn't all of that a lot of fun?
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