Can anybody explain the birthday paradox

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If you take a group of people born in a non leap year you would need 366 people for a 100% chance that someone shares a birthday but only 23 people for a 50% chance that somebody shares a birthday?

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It’s not really a paradox. It’s just the way the math works out. It seems paradoxical bc human brains don’t naturally have a very intuitive sense of statistics.

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