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switzr1
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| Tuesday, September 26, 2017 7:56 AM | |
Kind of cool that both of my favorite current NHL players have a birthday today. What are the odds?
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vrooomed
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| Tuesday, September 26, 2017 8:38 AM | |
LOL! Odds are pretty good with those two.
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kcjays
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| Tuesday, September 26, 2017 11:27 AM | |
Fun fact:
When there are 23 people together in a room there is a 50% chance 2 people will share a birthday.
Increase the number to 75 and it's 99.9%.
(I have no idea why I know that. Something from high school, 30+ years ago.)
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vrooomed
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| Tuesday, September 26, 2017 11:50 AM | |
Put twins in the room and it goes up to 99.999999% (there have been a few that spanned midnight).
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ranfordfan
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| Tuesday, September 26, 2017 10:02 PM | |
Fun Fact 2.0
Longest span between twin birthdays .............. 84 DAYS!!! Crazy!! And the alien twins certainly never got prettier with age! ROFL
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avsbruins65
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| Tuesday, September 26, 2017 10:15 PM | |
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Trying to acquire one card for every for every set, insert, parralle, minor, euro, team issue, oddball etc sets produced for Hockey. Been an interesting project. |
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ntlwhlr
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| Tuesday, September 26, 2017 10:28 PM | |
Another year older - maybe soon he will slow down against the Hawks now!
ok - i had to learn more about this so I googled and came across this...
https://betterexplained.com/articles/understanding-the-birthday-paradox/
Well, that was way too much information (especially for this time of night) and all I could think about was Todd Snider's song Statistician Blues by Todd Snider...
"They say 3 percent of the people use 5 to 6 percent of their brain
97 percent use 3 percent and the rest goes down the drain
I'll never know which one I am but I'll bet you my last dime
99 percent think we're 3 percent 100 percent of the time.
64 percent of all the world's statistics are made up right there on the spot
82.4 percent of people believe 'em whether they're accurate statistics or not
I don't know what you believe but I do know there's no doubt
I need another double shot of something 90 proof, I got too much to think about.
Too much to think about
Too much to figure out
Stuck between hope and doubt
It's too much to think about."
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switzr1
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| Wednesday, September 27, 2017 10:33 AM | |
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I'm going to reevaluate how I collect after the new year. It's just getting way too expensive for the new stuff. Sometimes I just want to buy a pack, not a whole box or even blaster. |
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ranfordfan
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| Wednesday, September 27, 2017 7:53 PM | |
Too funny David, I'm guessing there was a lull in the labour pains. =D
And you actually alomost shared their birthday as well ............. Happy Birthday ya ol' coot!! =)
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switzr1
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| Thursday, September 28, 2017 5:10 PM | |
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I'm going to reevaluate how I collect after the new year. It's just getting way too expensive for the new stuff. Sometimes I just want to buy a pack, not a whole box or even blaster. |
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