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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
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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.