From: jjd@cray.com (Jeff Drummond)
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: <52ero0$gua@walter.cray.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 52ej16$ite@bone.think.com
In article <52ej16$ite@bone.think.com>, sandee@Think.COM (Daan Sandee) writes:
> 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.
Yes, but is this linguistic nit-picking or statistical nit-picking? :-)
-Jeff jjd@cray.com .02% is close enough for me...
--
Kitman's Law: Pure drivel tends to drive out ordinary drivel.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~1996-09-26 0:00 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 66+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
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 ` Norman H. Cohen
1996-09-18 0:00 ` James Giles
1996-09-18 0:00 ` Andrew Gierth
1996-09-18 0:00 ` Luke Chao
1996-09-18 0:00 ` James Giles
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 ` Matthew D. Healy
1996-09-29 0:00 ` Randy MacDonald
1996-10-03 0:00 ` galina.kasminskaya
1996-10-03 0:00 ` Dave Tholen
1996-09-26 0:00 ` Ken Pizzini
1996-09-29 0:00 ` Paul Gilmartin
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 ` 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 ` Dik T. Winter
1996-10-02 0:00 ` Ken Pizzini
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 [this message]
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
1996-09-25 0:00 ` Friday 13th, try it yourself (was Language Wars..) Barrie Walker
1996-09-26 0:00 ` Jim Shapiro
1996-09-23 0:00 ` 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 ` Randy MacDonald
1996-09-23 0:00 ` Dik T. Winter
1996-09-25 0:00 ` John Harper
1996-09-25 0:00 ` jupiter
1996-09-23 0:00 ` Dr John Stockton
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 ` Paul Skoczylas
1996-10-03 0:00 ` Dr John Stockton
1996-10-03 0:00 ` Daan Sandee
replies disabled
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox