{"id":406,"date":"2007-03-24T06:20:54","date_gmt":"2007-03-24T05:20:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/wordpress\/?p=406"},"modified":"2007-03-24T06:20:54","modified_gmt":"2007-03-24T05:20:54","slug":"what-are-the-odds-on-sharing-of-birthdays","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=406","title":{"rendered":"What are the odds on sharing of birthdays?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My wife has the same birthday as her sister. This is not so surprising &#8211; they&#8217;re twins! Next door but one to me, the little boy has the same birthday as me &#8211; but that&#8217;s just a coincidence.<br \/>\nSo, let&#8217;s have some fun. How many people do you need to get together to have a greater chance than not that two people in this gathering have the same birthday? Think about it and when you&#8217;re ready &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><br \/>\nThe answer is 23.<br \/>\nSurprised?<br \/>\nYou&#8217;ll find the mathematical proof <a href=\"http:\/\/noca.leaver.org\/birthday\/other.html\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My wife has the same birthday as her sister. This is not so surprising &#8211; they&#8217;re twins! Next door but one to me, the little boy has the same birthday as me &#8211; but that&#8217;s just a coincidence. So, let&#8217;s have some fun. How many people do you need to get together to have a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-406","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/406","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=406"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/406\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=406"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=406"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=406"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}