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Birthdays, Bicycles and Brevity

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These paradoxical principles are best illustrated through three examples relating to birthdays, bicycles and brevity. This is best illustrated via the birthday paradox which shows that the chance that 2 people in a group share a birthday requires just 23 people. Metcalf’s Law. What about you? Rebecca Lawson.