From: sandee@Think.COM (Daan Sandee)
Subject: Re: Results of my test: Re: Friday 13th, try it yourself
Date: 1996/09/26
Date: 1996-09-26T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <52ej16$ite@bone.think.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Pine.SOL.3.91.960926130011.17641E-100000@serv1.jump.net
In article <Pine.SOL.3.91.960926130011.17641E-100000@serv1.jump.net>, Lee Crites <adonai@jump.net> writes:
[repeats attempts already made by others and posted here ad nauseam]
|> However, the results are no different. Basically, the 13th falls
|> uniformily across each day of the week.
As your table shows, the 13th is a Friday more often that any other day
of the week. Which was the original claim. The claim was not "much
more often". The numbers you have calculated are exact and repeatable
(others have produced them with totally different programs.) You can
call these numbers "basically uniform" if you like, but the claim that
Friday occurs more often is correct.
|> And finally, here are the results of the run:
|>
|> Summary of days which the 13th happen on:
|>
|> 4800 total items
|>
|> Sun found 687 times
|> Mon found 685 times
|> Tue found 685 times
|> Wed found 687 times
|> Thu found 684 times
|> Fri found 688 times
|> Sat found 684 times
(Anyone wanting to repeat the attempt should remember to use the
Gregorian calendar for 400 consecutive years. That is a necessary
and sufficient requirement. If you use Unix 'cal', start after 1752.)
Daan Sandee
Burlington, MA sandee@think.com
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1996-09-13 0:00 language wars (results 13 September) last posting Roy Gardiner
1996-09-13 0:00 ` William Clodius
1996-09-13 0:00 ` Peter Seebach
1996-09-21 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-09-21 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-09-16 0:00 ` Robert Fahey
1996-09-18 0:00 ` Andrew Gierth
1996-09-18 0:00 ` Luke Chao
1996-09-18 0:00 ` James Giles
1996-09-18 0:00 ` James Giles
1996-09-18 0:00 ` Norman H. Cohen
1996-09-19 0:00 ` Daniel J. Long
1996-09-21 0:00 ` Ken Pizzini
1996-09-21 0:00 ` Ken Pizzini
1996-09-24 0:00 ` Art Schwarz
1996-09-26 0:00 ` Ken Pizzini
1996-09-29 0:00 ` Paul Gilmartin
1996-09-26 0:00 ` Matthew D. Healy
1996-09-29 0:00 ` Randy MacDonald
1996-10-03 0:00 ` galina.kasminskaya
1996-10-03 0:00 ` Dave Tholen
1996-09-19 0:00 ` Norman H. Cohen
1996-09-19 0:00 ` Andrew Gierth
1996-09-20 0:00 ` John Girash
1996-09-20 0:00 ` John Girash
1996-09-20 0:00 ` Friday 13th, try it yourself (was Language Wars..) Clinton Pierce
1996-09-21 0:00 ` Russell Mosemann
1996-09-21 0:00 ` Russell Mosemann
1996-09-25 0:00 ` Barrie Walker
1996-09-26 0:00 ` Jim Shapiro
1996-09-25 0:00 ` 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 ` Lee Crites
1996-09-26 0:00 ` John Winters
1996-09-26 0:00 ` Daan Sandee [this message]
1996-09-26 0:00 ` Jeff Drummond
1996-09-30 0:00 ` Ray Dunn
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
1996-09-26 0:00 ` Dr John Stockton
[not found] ` <199609302101.JAA04610@kauri.vuw.ac.nz>
1996-09-30 0:00 ` Lee Crites
1996-09-23 0:00 ` Friday 13th, try it yourself (was Language Wars..) Matthew D. Healy
1996-09-23 0:00 ` Dik T. Winter
1996-09-25 0:00 ` Paul Gilmartin
1996-09-22 0:00 ` Dr John Stockton
1996-09-23 0:00 ` Dr John Stockton
1996-09-23 0:00 ` Randy MacDonald
1996-09-23 0:00 ` Dik T. Winter
1996-09-25 0:00 ` John Harper
1996-09-25 0:00 ` jupiter
1996-09-24 0:00 ` language wars (results 13 September) last posting Andrew Gierth
1996-09-24 0:00 ` Art Schwarz
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
1996-10-03 0:00 Results of my test: Re: Friday 13th, try it yourself James Gillespie
1996-10-03 0:00 ` Daan Sandee
1996-10-03 0:00 ` Dr John Stockton
1996-10-03 0:00 ` Paul Skoczylas
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