From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=0.6 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_40,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 10261c,68666e29d0425009 X-Google-Attributes: gid10261c,public X-Google-Thread: 11390f,be6b7e036aa9236c X-Google-Attributes: gid11390f,public X-Google-Thread: 103376,be6b7e036aa9236c X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Thread: 114809,68666e29d0425009 X-Google-Attributes: gid114809,public X-Google-Thread: 1164ba,be6b7e036aa9236c X-Google-Attributes: gid1164ba,public X-Google-Thread: 1014db,be6b7e036aa9236c X-Google-Attributes: gid1014db,public X-Google-Thread: 1094ba,be6b7e036aa9236c X-Google-Attributes: gid1094ba,public X-Google-Thread: fa0ae,be6b7e036aa9236c X-Google-Attributes: gidfa0ae,public From: Glen Clark Subject: Re: Results of my test: Re: Friday 13th, try it yourself Date: 1996/09/27 Message-ID: <324C72AB.68607C46@clarkcom.com>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 185771283 references: <5bxuvOAdKcSyEwne@merlyn.demon.co.uk> <52ehob$o7p@krusty.irvine.com> content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii organization: Clark Communications mime-version: 1.0 newsgroups: comp.lang.ada,comp.lang.apl,comp.lang.basic,comp.lang.c,comp.lang.fortran,comp.lang.perl.misc,comp.lang.pascal.misc,comp.lang.smalltalk x-mailer: Mozilla 2.02 (X11; I; Linux 1.2.8 i486) Date: 1996-09-27T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: Adam Beneschan wrote: > > Lee Crites writes: > > >I got a message telling > >me I was proving the wrong thing. The discussion was not "how frequently > >does each date happen on a Friday," but was "how frequently is the 13th a > >Friday." > > Uh, your own results prove that the 13th falls on Friday more often > than on other days of the week. No one has claimed that the 13th is a > Friday 25% more often > than a Monday, or anything like that. I am baffled at the amount of bandwidth that has been consumed arguing about how many Friday the 13ths fit on the head of a pin. In the news business, they talk about whether a story has "legs". If it has legs, it means the public wants more of it. This discussion about Friday the 13th has incredible legs. If I remember right, it started out three titles ago under the heading of Publishing Scholarly Works on the Net several weeks back. And it's cross-posted to no fewer than eight newsgroups. Is this a spoof? -- Glen Clark glen@clarkcom.com