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Book: Caren Gussoff’s The Birthday Problem

Ever wondered what it would be like to wander through plague-ridden Seattle in the future? This book’s a good approximation.
The Birthday Problem of the title is a common mathematical puzzle: find the probability that, in a group of N people, there is at least one pair of people who have the same birthday. (Hint: it’s a much lower number than you think. You can find out more about it on Wikipedia if you want to understand why.) The book is about odd ties and coincidences, set in a crumbling Seattle in a world plagued by nanobots that make people crazy.
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