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Birthday Problem
Directions for use
Handle: Document-18647
Owner: Fuller, Tina (User-7387, tfuller:DocuShare)DS
Wednesday, November 19, 2003 02:01:48 PM EST
Wednesday, November 19, 2003 02:01:48 PM EST
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  • Open the excel file…
N.B.
  • This file contains a macro called BirthdaySort that makes the whole thing work.
  • Click
on Tools and then Customize.
  • Click the Commands tab.
  • Highlight birthdaysort and click OK.
5. You are now ready to use this file. BirthdaySort reassigns all 3500 random numbers and then sorts the list by those random numbers—(Excel reassigns the random numbers again after it sorts the list, so don’t expect the list to be in order.) Birthday Sort then takes the top 23 names and sorts them by their birthdays from Jan. The process can be applied again and again and by so doing you can empirically show that approximately 50% of the time at least two people in ...
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Appears In: Using Technology in the Math Classroom
Preferred Version: Birthday Problem