SciShow: The Infamous, Brain-Bending Birthday Problem

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Content of the Lesson: Visit https://brilliant.org/scishow/ to get started learning STEM for free. The first 200 people will get 20% off their annual premium subscription and a 30-day free trial. There's a rather famous problem in math of probability called the Birthday Paradox. Let's get into how it works, and how creative uses of this hypothetical problem have real-world applications! Hosted by: Savannah Geary (they/them) ---------- Support SciShow by becoming a patron on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/scishow ---------- Huge thanks go to the following Patreon supporters for helping us keep SciShow free for everyone forever: Adam Brainard, Alex Hackman, Ash, Bryan Cloer, charles george, Chris Mackey, Chris Peters, Christoph Schwanke, Christopher R Boucher, Eric Jensen, Harrison Mills, Jaap Westera, Jason A, Saslow, Jeffrey Mckishen, Jeremy Mattern, Kevin Bealer, Matt Curls, Michelle Dove, Piya Shedden, Rizwan Kassim, Sam Lutfi ---------- Looking for SciShow elsewhere on the internet? SciShow Tangents Podcast: https://scishow-tangents.simplecast.com/ TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@scishow Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/scishow Instagram: http://instagram.com/thescishow Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/scishow #SciShow #science #education #learning #complexly ---------- Sources https://academic.oup.com/jrssig/article/4/3/124/7029695 https://www.storyofmathematics.com/coin-flip-probability/ https://www.zippia.com/advice/most-least-common-birthdays/ https://www.statista.com/chart/5814/the-months-of-the-year-with-the-most-births/ https://www.imperva.com/learn/data-security/anonymization/ https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/03610926.2023.2184186 https://corporatefinanceinstitute.com/resources/cryptocurrency/hash-function/ https://www.comparitech.com/blog/information-security/what-is-a-collision-attack/#What_is_a_collision Image Sources: https://www.gettyimages.com/detail/video/close-up-of-beautiful-woman-celebrating-her-birthday-stock-footage/1370982760 https://www.gettyimages.com/detail/video/portrait-of-a-smiling-curly-red-haired-girl-making-a-stock-footage/1185741164 https://www.gettyimages.com/detail/video/iron-ball-pen-and-dark-shadow-on-year-calendar-in-stock-footage/1482185251 https://www.gettyimages.com/detail/video/birthday-celebrations-stock-footage/1205376419 https://www.gettyimages.com/detail/video/calendar-clock-in-1-year-stock-footage/1424476853 https://www.gettyimages.com/detail/photo/leap-year-flat-lay-concept-with-wooden-calendar-royalty-free-image/1205223635 https://www.gettyimages.com/detail/video/portrait-of-a-young-newborn-baby-lying-in-a-crib-in-a-stock-footage/1473681717 https://www.gettyimages.com/detail/video/female-it-engineer-working-and-coding-program-at-night-stock-footage/1303833741 https://www.gettyimages.com/detail/video/doctors-learning-and-teamwork-on-computer-screen-with-stock-footage/1480799035 https://www.gettyimages.com/detail/video/patient-history-form-with-red-heart-stethoscope-and-stock-footage/1474344396 https://www.gettyimages.com/detail/video/female-doctor-working-on-a-computer-in-the-medical-stock-footage/1419622672 https://www.gettyimages.com/detail/video/closeup-of-a-doctor-holding-and-using-a-digital-tablet-stock-footage/1412430793 https://www.gettyimages.com/detail/video/coding-on-the-screen-html-encoding-and-programming-on-a-stock-footage/1402643643 https://www.gettyimages.com/detail/video/hackers-program-code-running-on-screen-stock-footage/873227696 https://www.gettyimages.com/detail/video/entering-data-via-keyboard-stock-footage/1448440543


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