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English: In probability theory, the birthday problem or birthday paradox concerns the probability that, in a set of n randomly chosen people, some pair of them will have the same birthday. By the pigeonhole principle, the probability reaches 100% when the number of people reaches 367 (since there are 366 possible birthdays, including February 29). However, 99% probability is reached with just 57 people, and 50% probability with 23 people. These conclusions are based on the assumption that each day of the year (except February 29) is equally probable for a birthday.
The mathematics behind this problem led to a well-known cryptographic attack called the birthday attack, which uses this probabilistic model to reduce the complexity of cracking a hash function. |
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Author | Guillaume Jacquenot |
SVG development InfoField | This W3C-invalid plot was created with Matplotlib. |
Source code InfoField | Python code# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
#
# Script to generate in English and French, graphs for the
# birthday problem.
# More precisely, it generates two SVG files representing the
# probability of no match of two identical birthday one the same
# wrt the number of person in the considered group.
#
# **************************************************************
# http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Birthday_problem
# From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia:
# In probability theory, the birthday problem or birthday
# paradox concerns the probability that, in a set of n
# randomly chosen people, some pair of them will have the
# same birthday. By the pigeonhole principle, the probability
# reaches 100% when the number of people reaches 367
# (since there are 366 possible birthdays, including February
# 29). However, 99% probability is reached with just 57 people,
# and 50% probability with 23 people. These conclusions are
# based on the assumption that each day of the year (except
# February 29) is equally probable for a birthday.
#
# The mathematics behind this problem led to a well-known
# cryptographic attack called the birthday attack, which
# uses this probabilistic model to reduce the complexity
# of cracking a hash function.
#
# Text under the
# Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License
# **************************************************************
#
# Implementation:
# To ensure numerical accuracy, one evaluates the log10 of the
# probabibity of no match. This allows to converts the
# probability formula from a product formula to a sum formula.
#
#
# Guillaume Jacquenot
# 2013/03/10
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
from matplotlib import rc
rc('font',**{'family':'serif','serif':['Palatino'],'size':14})
rc('text', usetex=True)
import numpy as np
def BirthdaymatchComputationLog10():
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This function evaluates the log10 probability of no
match for the birthday paradox.
This ensures no approximation on the result.
$\log _{10} \left( {\bar p(n)} \right) =
\sum\limits_{i = 365 + 1 - n}^{365}
{\log _{10} \left( i \right)}
- n\log _{10} \left( {365} \right)$
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n=np.arange(1,365)
nR=np.arange(365,1,-1)
p=np.cumsum(np.log10(nR))-n*np.log10(365)
return n,p
def BirthdaymatchGenerateTitle(logTitle=False):
if logTitle:
title='$\\log _{10} \\left( {\\bar p(n)} \\right)\
= \\sum\\limits_{i = 365 + 1 - n}^{365}\
{\\log _{10} \\left( i \\right)}\
- n\\log _{10} \\left( {365} \\right)$'
else:
title='$\\bar p(n) = \\frac{365!}{365^n\
\\left( {365 - n} \\right)!}$'
return title
def Birthdaymatch(\
labels={'xlabel':'Number of people',\
'ylabel':'Probability of no match',\
'title':'Birthday paradox'},\
outputFilename = r'Birthdaymatch.svg'):
n,p = BirthdaymatchComputationLog10()
fig, ax = plt.subplots()
plt.plot(n,p,c='k', linestyle='-')
plt.grid(True, ls='-', c='#a0a0a0')
plt.xlabel(labels['xlabel'])
plt.ylabel(labels['ylabel'])
plt.title(labels['title']+' - '+BirthdaymatchGenerateTitle())
fig.canvas.draw()
labels = [item.get_text() for item in ax.get_yticklabels()]
labels = [label[1:] if label.startswith('$') else label for label in labels]
labels = [label[0:-1] if label.endswith('$') else label for label in labels]
labels = ['$10^{'+label+'}$' for label in labels]
ax.set_yticklabels(labels)
plt.savefig(outputFilename)
Birthdaymatch()
Birthdaymatch(\
labels={'xlabel':u"Nombre de personnes",\
'ylabel':u"Probabilit\\'e de non correspondance",\
'title':u"Paradoxe des anniversaires"},\
outputFilename = r'Birthdaymatch_FR.svg')
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