> -----Original Message-----
> From: Trefor Roscoe [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
> Sent: 19 July 2004 18:53
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: Invitation
>
> Robert Treharne Jones wrote:
> > What an amazing coincidence - Tref's parents' golden wedding is the
> > same day as Midge's silver wedding. Surely this must qualify as some
> > sort of record? ;-)
> >
> > Robert
> >
> >> -----Original Message-----
> >> From: GP-UK [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Trefor Roscoe
> >> My parents Golden Wedding weekend, shame
>
> IIRC they were both Saturdays, the probability of a wedding day being a
> Saturday must be much higher
>
> And I have just noticed Ewans post.
>
> My wife shares a birthday with her brother, seven years apart. Chances
> of that, not very high apparently, seems to be the same as the two
> people sharing a birthday in the same room, but with the added bias of
> more children born at certain times of the year.
>
> We have two children, a boy and a girl. My wife was very proud of the
> fact that we had achieved this until I pointed out that 50% of couples
> with two kids will have one of each. She still does not believe me.
>
>
>
> Trefor
[Shaun O'Hanlon]
Not necessarily
http://mathforum.org/dr.math/faq/faq.boy.girl.html
Shaun
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