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Bernoulli numbers and the probability of a birthday surprise (English)
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10 June 2003
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Let us consider the event that for a sample of \(k\) uniformly random elements out of size \(n\) there exist at least two identical elements. This is a birthday surprise event. The author shows that Bernoulli numbers can be used to derive arbitrarily exact bounds on the probability of a birthday surprise. This result can be applied to better understand some questions in communication security and pseudorandom number generation.
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