The Birthday Problem of People with a Given Distribution

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The problem of birthday is an ancient and interesting problem in probability theory. The traditional birthday problem has a conclusion that the probability of the same birthday among people will reach 50% when the number of people reached 23. This paper studies the issue of people with a given distribution and discusses the probability that people have the same birthday among a given crowd.

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