The matching, birthday and the strong birthday problem: a contemporary review
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This article provides a contemporary exposition at amoderately quantitative level of the distribution theory associated with the matching and the birthday problems. A large number of examples, many not well known, are provided to help a reader have a feeling for these questions at an intuitive level. © 2004 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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تاریخ انتشار 2004