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How can I prove that the probability that exactly 2 people share the same birthday is more likely than everyone has a different day out of 20 people? [closed]

I will be thankful if you can help me and show how to solve this.
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Birthday Paradoxon

So I saw this interesting problem: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Birthday_problem And I am not the best at probability, so my question is why I cant calculate the probability with P (2 in n same ...
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Birthday Problem: Why isn't the probability 253/365

Consider a set of $23$ unrelated people. Because each 23 pair of people shares the same birthday with probability $1/365$, and there are $\binom{23}2 = 253$ pairs, why isn’t the probability that at ...
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