How often can we celebrate someone's birthday in the office?

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Given a certain amount of employees in an office, how many weeks of the year should it be reasonable to celebrate birthdays?

Assumptions:

• there are ~200 employees in this office
• there are 52 weeks in the year
• there is an equal probability of each employee being born on any of the 52 weeks

Here are 20 trials:

In [23]: for epoch in range(20): 
    ...:     birthdays = set() 
    ...:     for employee in range(200): 
    ...:         birthdays.add(random.randint(1, 52)) 
    ...:     print(len(birthdays)) 
    ...:                                                                                            
52
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48

Looks like we should be celebrating roughly every week 😂