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Year 9 Computing – Algorithms, puzzles and programming

The Birthday Paradox.

If there are more than 23 people in the room, the chance of two of them sharing a birthday is more than 50%.

Honestly.

This doesn't seem possible, but it is. It's an example of something called a paradox.

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There are instructions for coding it:

> Birthday paradox programming instructions

Back to previous lessons

There's a second linear search program to try:

Highest Common Factor algorithm

The search algorithm programs

> Second linear search programming instructions

Flags with the Python turtle

Using Python online

There's a way to use Python online if it doesn't work on your computer:

> Code today coding

> Online Python coding