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Happy Birthday (Posted on 2003-03-27) Difficulty: 3 of 5
Find the least positive integer 'N' so that, in a room containing 'N' people, the odds that two of the people have the same birthday (not the year, just the day) are more than 50%.

[Note: Forget about Leap Year. Assume that a year has 365 days and that people are born randomly throughout the year].

See The Solution Submitted by Ravi Raja    
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re: solution | Comment 3 of 7 |
(In reply to solution by Jonathan Waltz)

wait, i was wrong. i had this problem before, and i remebered that the class size we had was 26, but we really only needed less, 22 to be exact, to get over 50%
  Posted by Jonathan Waltz on 2003-03-28 04:24:44

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