Challenge #140: Prove the Birthday Paradox!

[KMiller]

Solution attached

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[tiffany_chen]

Fun! I set the trail number as 10,000 and only use 19s to complete running.

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[rmassambane]

I spent more time than I'd like trying to create a macro. Ended up doing the brute force solution.

[danicahui]

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[JamesCameron]

My Effort

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Two iterative macros, one looping over the population,the other running 1000 trials

[mbogusz]

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[sonyakasenkramer]

I spent a lot of time building a macro that ultimately didn't work, then I decided that I could do this within a workflow if I used a join on iteration number and  sample size rather than appending records then filtering. I got it running in 2 minutes for 10,000 iterations (to get a nice smooth curve) 🙂

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[hanykowska]

Nice one

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[dsmdavid]

Although the challenge says something along the lines of "create a population of 100,000 people, then do the tests sampling from that population" (and I tried that with batch+iterative, taking a looong time) I went with not really "sampling" the population but just creating a new people for each row...should provide similar answers.

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[GaneshBo]

My Solution: