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Peer reviewedNandor, M. J. – Mathematics Teacher, 2004
The greatest benefit of including leap year in the calculation is not to increase precision, but to show students that a problem can be solved without such presumption. A birthday problem is analyzed showing that calculating a leap-year birthday probability is not a frivolous computation.
Descriptors: Probability, Computation, Problem Solving, Problem Sets
