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#!/usr/bin/python | |
""" Compute the probability of M people sharing a birthday out of a group of | |
N people. | |
The parameter `exact' determines whether we want to ignore clusterings of | |
more than M people with the same birthday (thus the largest group of | |
coincident birthdays is exactly M). If it's false, we allow "M or more". | |
How it works: we define a recursive counting function |