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Minimum people covering every birthday

University · ●●●●○ 100 pts

Assume a year has 365 equally likely birthdays, each person's birthday is independent of the others, and leap years are ignored. What is the minimum number of people needed so that the probability that every one of the 365 days is someone's birthday is greater than 0.50.5?

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