OFFSET
3,1
COMMENTS
Ceiling of this constant (253) gives the minimum number of people (chosen randomly) such that the probability of at least one person in the group having the same birthday as a particular other person in the group (not considering leap years) is greater than 50%.
LINKS
Paolo Xausa, Table of n, a(n) for n = 3..10000
Brady Haran and Tom Crawford, Closer Look at the Birthday Paradox, YouTube Numberphile video, 2025.
Wikipedia, Birthday problem.
EXAMPLE
252.65198884415759433072011649229066834246961885218...
MATHEMATICA
First[RealDigits[Log[2]/Log[365/364], 10, 100]]
CROSSREFS
KEYWORD
AUTHOR
Paolo Xausa, Dec 06 2025
STATUS
approved
