Matching a specific birthday

Ignoring leap years, in a room of 23 people what is the probability that at least one shares your birthday? (to 3 decimals)

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  1. Use the complement: nobody matches your specific day.
  2. Each person misses with probability 364/365.

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0.061 (± 0.005)

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