Birthday Paradox API
Birthday-paradox and collision-probability maths as an API, computed locally and deterministically. The probability endpoint computes the chance that at least two of n people share a birthday among d equally likely days, P = 1 − Π(1 − i/d), evaluated in log space for accuracy — the famous result that just 23 people give about a 50.7 % chance, 50 people about 97 % and 70 people about 99.9 %. The people-needed endpoint inverts it: the smallest group size to reach a target probability (23 for 50 %, 57 for 99 %), with the √(2·d·ln(1/(1−p))) approximation. The collision endpoint generalises the birthday bound to any space — pass a number of buckets or a hash size in bits — and returns the collision probability P ≈ 1 − e^(−n²/2d), the rule behind hash collisions and UUID-uniqueness estimates, where a 50 % chance needs roughly 1.177·√d items. Days and buckets default to 365. Everything is computed locally and deterministically, so it is instant and private. Ideal for probability-education, security, cryptography, hashing, data-engineering and statistics app developers, collision-risk and birthday-problem tools, and teaching material. Pure local computation — no key, no third-party service, instant. Live, nothing stored. 3 endpoints. This is the birthday/collision probability; for full distributions use a probability API.
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