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Everyday is a Birthday A Journey to a classic problem through Math and Rust
A guy decides to overthink a simple question from his university's anonymous forum.
A few days ago, I was working on a UI framework (in rust btw) for a personal project; abruptly, I decided to check my group chat and noticed a screenshot of a question from our university’s anonymous forum, Fizz. Now that we have come up with two different methods to solve similar problems, I want to explore another lead: Monte Carlo Simulation (honestly, so this blog has pictures, lol). So that was a dead end — until I found this paper, Birthday paradox, coupon collectors, caching algorithms and self-organizing search by Philippe Flajolet.
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