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=-1.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 11390f,be6b7e036aa9236c X-Google-Attributes: gid11390f,public X-Google-Thread: 10261c,68666e29d0425009 X-Google-Attributes: gid10261c,public X-Google-Thread: 103376,be6b7e036aa9236c X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Thread: fa0ae,be6b7e036aa9236c X-Google-Attributes: gidfa0ae,public X-Google-Thread: 1164ba,be6b7e036aa9236c X-Google-Attributes: gid1164ba,public X-Google-Thread: 1094ba,be6b7e036aa9236c X-Google-Attributes: gid1094ba,public X-Google-Thread: 1014db,be6b7e036aa9236c X-Google-Attributes: gid1014db,public X-Google-Thread: 114809,68666e29d0425009 X-Google-Attributes: gid114809,public From: jjd@cray.com (Jeff Drummond) Subject: Re: Results of my test: Re: Friday 13th, try it yourself Date: 1996/09/26 Message-ID: <52ero0$gua@walter.cray.com>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 185539298 distribution: world sender: jjd@poplar307 (Jeff Drummond) references: <5bxuvOAdKcSyEwne@merlyn.demon.co.uk> <52ej16$ite@bone.think.com> organization: Cray Research a subsidiary of Silicon Graphics, Inc. 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 originator: jjd@poplar307 Date: 1996-09-26T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: In article <52ej16$ite@bone.think.com>, sandee@Think.COM (Daan Sandee) writes: > In article , Lee Crites 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.