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kleinbl00 · 2050 days ago · link · · parent · post: "I found two identical packs of Skittles, among 468 packs with a total of 27,740 Skittles"
For one thing, recreational mathematics is fun. But perhaps more importantly, there are useful, non-recreational, “real-world” applications of the same underlying mathematics. Cryptography is one such example application; this experiment is really just a birthday attack in slightly more complicated form.)