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From: Paul Skoczylas <P.Skoczylas@cfer.ualberta.ca>
Subject: Re: Results of my test: Re: Friday 13th, try it yourself
Date: 1996/10/03
Date: 1996-10-03T00:00:00+00:00	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3253CA14.7EF3@cfer.ualberta.ca> (raw)
In-Reply-To: bii3ezwnwlc.fsf@sbil.co.uk


James Gillespie wrote:
> 
>     At the risk of prolonging this thread, there has been recent
> discussion over how long a time period must be analysed to get a
> correct distribution.  One value put forward was 4800 years.

But if the calendar, as presently defined (whether that is the best
definition or not), repeats every four hundred years, why use anything
longer than that?  If you use 4800 yrs, the distribution will look
exactly like 400 yrs, but 12 times bigger.




  parent reply	other threads:[~1996-10-03  0:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
1996-10-03  0:00 Results of my test: Re: Friday 13th, try it yourself James Gillespie
1996-10-03  0:00 ` Dr John Stockton
1996-10-03  0:00 ` Daan Sandee
1996-10-03  0:00 ` Paul Skoczylas [this message]
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
1996-09-25  0:00 Friday 13th, try it yourself (was Language Wars..) Ken Pizzini
1996-09-25  0:00 ` Results of my test: Re: Friday 13th, try it yourself Lee Crites
1996-09-25  0:00   ` William Clodius
1996-09-27  0:00   ` Dik T. Winter
     [not found]     ` <52qpqt$1b3l@ilx018.iil.intel.com>
1996-10-02  0:00       ` Ken Pizzini
1996-10-02  0:00       ` Dik T. Winter
1996-09-26  0:00 ` Dr John Stockton
1996-09-26  0:00   ` Dr John Stockton
1996-09-26  0:00   ` Lee Crites
1996-09-26  0:00     ` Daan Sandee
1996-09-26  0:00       ` Jeff Drummond
1996-09-30  0:00         ` Ray Dunn
1996-09-26  0:00     ` John Winters
1996-09-26  0:00     ` Adam Beneschan
1996-09-27  0:00       ` Glen Clark
1996-09-27  0:00     ` CHI Research, Inc. 
1996-09-27  0:00       ` Lee Crites
1996-09-28  0:00         ` John Winters
1996-09-30  0:00         ` Adam Beneschan
1996-10-01  0:00       ` Mike McCarty
     [not found]   ` <199609302101.JAA04610@kauri.vuw.ac.nz>
1996-09-30  0:00     ` Lee Crites
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