birthday paradox

English

Noun

birthday paradox

1. (probability theory) The counterintuitive observation that a random group of people needs to have only 23 members before there is a 50% chance of two of them having the same birthday.

Related terms

• birthday problem

Translations

mathematical observation

• Finnish: syntymäpäiväparadoksi
• German: Geburtstagsparadoxon (de) n
• Portuguese: paradoxo do aniversário m