Everyone laughs, cheers even louder
Posted: Tue Jun 17, 2025 8:59 am
Two football teams play against each other, led by a referee. After the match - everyone is sitting in the canteen and patting each other on the back, it was a fair match and there was no headbutt - the referee offers five crates of beer. Cheers go up. "But," says the referee, "we agree that if two of us have birthdays on the same day, the birthday boys and girls will each place five crates next to each other."
Of course they join in. What are the chances that in a group of 23 people, two have the same birthday? They sit in a circle, and each name their birthday. It will be exciting until the last player. The chance that two people name the same day of the year is… more than 50%! Let’s call this the KOS, the chance of success.
The mathematical proof for this can be given in a few lines, and can be found at the brother cell phone list bottom of this article.
The power of a network
It seems like an innocent calculation, but the outcome – the chance is greater than 50% – says everything about the strength of a network, and the data that is available within that network. The explanation is quite simple. In a network of 23 people, there are more than 250 possible connections between two people.
That network is there now, and we call it the internet. Think of the networks of Facebook, LinkedIn, all the customers of a bank or everyone who ever bought something at Wehkamp. The network is cross-border, knows no ranks or classes, is not influenced by skin colors, races, burkas or Polish origins .
Of course they join in. What are the chances that in a group of 23 people, two have the same birthday? They sit in a circle, and each name their birthday. It will be exciting until the last player. The chance that two people name the same day of the year is… more than 50%! Let’s call this the KOS, the chance of success.
The mathematical proof for this can be given in a few lines, and can be found at the brother cell phone list bottom of this article.
The power of a network
It seems like an innocent calculation, but the outcome – the chance is greater than 50% – says everything about the strength of a network, and the data that is available within that network. The explanation is quite simple. In a network of 23 people, there are more than 250 possible connections between two people.
That network is there now, and we call it the internet. Think of the networks of Facebook, LinkedIn, all the customers of a bank or everyone who ever bought something at Wehkamp. The network is cross-border, knows no ranks or classes, is not influenced by skin colors, races, burkas or Polish origins .