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The "birthday paradox," approximately

The so-called birthday paradox is a non-problem generated by contradiction between mathematics and intuition.
The math appears complex but is apparently simple for those who can understand it — and for nature, which does not bother to calculate a soap-bubble.
In a group of 23 people there is a 50% likelihood that two of them will have been born upon the same day within the calendar year.

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