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ricarleite
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The DanielB Prisoners and Lightbulbs Thread
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27-Jan-2005, 8:39 AM
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Originally posted by: Starboy

Daniel, have you found a solution to this, or am I just too pessimistic about the probability? Does the math work out like the "two people in the room with the same birthday" problem? No...it can't. Hmmm...


It dosen't, because it's like throwing a dice twice and getting sequential numbers.

It's a good probability problem, the "same birthday" one... It's one of those "I can't belive this is the answer" problems.