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Formula for calculating the birthday paradox
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birthday.scala
def birthday(n: Int) = {
1 - (0 until n).map(1 - BigDecimal(_) / 365).product
}
assert(birthday(23) == BigDecimal("0.5072972343239854072254172283370325"))
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