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What age group are you

15 or less
11
11%
15-20
37
37%
20-30
35
35%
30+
16
16%
 
Total votes: 99
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Anthony Roberts
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Postby Anthony Roberts » Fri Jun 04, 2004 9:24 pm

Mufin deBranne wrote:Anothy you share a birthday with two people :shock: Cheshierekat and the Psycho Pixie

SekoETC wrote:
Mufin deBranne wrote:*counts* 18 in abit less than a month.


Haha, I tought you were older! How can I take advice from a minor?


:twisted: :twisted: Everyone always thinks im older.

June 18th 1986 ish muh B-day. I share that with a friend of mine irl who also plays cantr, cept he is older than me. Just same day. >.>


Sweet Jesus! *Hears his mother in the background "KEEP HIM OUT OF THIS"* ...

yeah. That's pretty cool. Three Cantr players born on the same day (Although obviously not the same year :P) - What are the chances, really?

Physho and Kat, we're going to have a birthday party at my place :) - I'll buy the booze (Since I'll be able to then! WOO!) - And yuo two buy your own round trip plane tickets, because I'm cheap.

(And of course, no one will understand the joke I'm trying to put out. SO I shall explain. I don't drink, so it'll only be THEM drinking. Two drunk girls, one sober guy. Must I say more? :D - Nah, kidding, kidding.)
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Postby trage » Fri Jun 04, 2004 10:02 pm

Seko the saddest thing of all is I am younger than most here, if not all, and people thought I was above 18 when I frst got here. :oops:
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Postby Mavsfan911 » Fri Jun 04, 2004 10:04 pm

Anthony wrote:
Mufin deBranne wrote:Anothy you share a birthday with two people :shock: Cheshierekat and the Psycho Pixie

SekoETC wrote:
Mufin deBranne wrote:*counts* 18 in abit less than a month.


Haha, I tought you were older! How can I take advice from a minor?


:twisted: :twisted: Everyone always thinks im older.

June 18th 1986 ish muh B-day. I share that with a friend of mine irl who also plays cantr, cept he is older than me. Just same day. >.>


Sweet Jesus! *Hears his mother in the background "KEEP HIM OUT OF THIS"* ...

yeah. That's pretty cool. Three Cantr players born on the same day (Although obviously not the same year :P) - What are the chances, really?

Physho and Kat, we're going to have a birthday party at my place :) - I'll buy the booze (Since I'll be able to then! WOO!) - And yuo two buy your own round trip plane tickets, because I'm cheap.

(And of course, no one will understand the joke I'm trying to put out. SO I shall explain. I don't drink, so it'll only be THEM drinking. Two drunk girls, one sober guy. Must I say more? :D - Nah, kidding, kidding.)


pure genius, anthony :D
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Anthony Roberts
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Postby Anthony Roberts » Fri Jun 04, 2004 10:24 pm

trage wrote:Seko the saddest thing of all is I am younger than most here, if not all, and people thought I was above 18 when I frst got here. :oops:


Ha. Ha. Ha. Trage? When you say "People", you mean "2 people", right? Because, well, I think we all thought you were below 10 ;)
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Oasis
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Postby Oasis » Sat Jun 05, 2004 1:03 am

Now now, be nice, Anthony.
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Anthony Roberts
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Postby Anthony Roberts » Sat Jun 05, 2004 2:31 am

Everyone knows I'm kidding. It's my sense of humour that keeps people using the forums ;)
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Postby Cheshierekat » Sat Jun 05, 2004 2:44 am

Anyone else born July 7?
When people tell me that great minds think alike, all I can do is look at them and think "oh you dirty, dirty bastard"
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Postby Mavsfan911 » Sat Jun 05, 2004 3:30 am

July 20 here
13 days off
wait....13 is an unlucky number
:shock:
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Postby Cheshierekat » Sat Jun 05, 2004 4:42 am

In my family, 13 is one of our luckiest numbers. Of course, my family has a warped sense of what 'lucky' is.
When people tell me that great minds think alike, all I can do is look at them and think "oh you dirty, dirty bastard"
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Postby Snake_byte » Sat Jun 05, 2004 6:05 am

Gonna be 19 in November
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Báng
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Postby Báng » Sat Jun 05, 2004 2:55 pm

The 12th of November!?
People don't change....perceptions do.

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Postby Thomas Pickert » Sat Jun 05, 2004 5:06 pm

Anthony wrote:Three Cantr players born on the same day (Although obviously not the same year :P) - What are the chances, really?


Assuming that there are 695 pairwise different Cantr players, and assuming that there are 366 possible birthdays, the chance for three players being born on the same day is Image (actually, if c is the chance we are talking about, the given term describes 1/c).

Using the above formula in my windows calculator, then applying 1/x to it results in a chance of approximately 86 percent for the event that 3 Cantr players are born on the same day.

The formula is clear enough to play around with other numbers for the number of players or for the number of possible birthdates respectively.


Assumptions have been described above. An additional assumption is, that the calculator works correctly. I have not spent any thought on how to get the most accurate result from a calculation with such huge numbers involved.
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Anthony Roberts
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Postby Anthony Roberts » Sat Jun 05, 2004 6:05 pm

86%? Are you sure? That seems a bit high...

Erm. My question was rethorical anyway. You didn't need to go all Math Wiz on us :P
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Postby Thomas Pickert » Sat Jun 05, 2004 6:23 pm

Yes, I am sure, under the given assumptions. The formula is correct, the correctness of the percentage depends on the correctness of the calculator.

And it doesn't seem that high, if you take into account, that with the numbers I used, the chance for two Cantr players to share a birthday is 100%.


I was aware that you asked a rhethorical question. However, your rhethorics appeared to suggest that said chance is very low, which is not the case. I just thought, I'd correct that, since it can't be in your interest to raise a wrong impression. ;)
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Postby Thomas Pickert » Sat Jun 05, 2004 6:30 pm

Short addition:

It is quite common, that people are surprised about the great likelyhood of doubled birthdays for a given number of people.

The probability that there are two shared birthdays in a group of 23 people (assuming there are only 365 possible dates) is greater than 50%. When there are 45 people in said group, the probability is already above 90%. :)
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