![]() ![]() The goal of the Birthday Problem is to calculate the likelihood that any 2 people within a group will have the same birthday (Assuming 365 days per year and evenly distributed birth dates through the year). We attempted to fix the “problem” by writing a “civ generator” script in python … but the same pattern emerged.Ī little (very little) research helped to clarify that we were running into the “ Birthday Problem“. ![]() When playing games w/ 6-7 randomly generated civs, we often saw the same civ appear twice in a game We expected this to be a rather rare occurrence.While you can choose 1 of 23 civilizations to play, AOE2 provides the option to have a civ selected for you at random. AOE2 allows up to 8 players to compete for global domination as they progress through the dark, feudal, castle and imperial ages. If you are the geeky sort, you may have played, or at least heard of, Microsoft’s Age of Empires (AOE2 to be precise). The Puzzle … Age of Empires 2 and Random Civilization Generation This is a fun post – The focus is the rather unexpected repetition of “random” numbers … something statisticians help to explain using the “ Birthday Problem/Paradox“.
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