Creating a more random int?

Grant Edwards grante at visi.com
Wed Jan 25 10:21:43 EST 2006


On 2006-01-25, Magnus Lycka <lycka at carmen.se> wrote:

> P.S. Since I was a kid, I've heard people say: So you're born
> on new years day--how unusual.

Well, it happens to slightly less than 1/365th of the
population[1], so it is rather unusual.  Of course it's no more
unusal that being born on June 19th or November 3rd or any
other date you choose...

[1] Assuming birth dates are uniformly distributed.  Which the
    probably aren't in countries where a significant portion of
    the population schedules births to fit the hospital/doctors
    schedule.

-- 
Grant




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