There are extensive resources on the internet discussing the famous Birthday Paradox. It is clear to me how you calculate the probability of two people sharing a birthday i.e. P(same) = 1 - P(differen
Please help interpret the Birthday effect as described in Wikipedia: A birthday attack works as follows:
I have a news table and I would like to implement custom ordering. I have done this before viaa positional mapping table which has newsIds and a position.
I have been doing some testing on the Random class and I have used the following code: while (x++ <= 5000000)
For a list of 10 ints, there are 10! possible orders or permutations.Why does random.shuffle give duplicates after only 5000 tries?