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: 1094ba,be6b7e036aa9236c X-Google-Attributes: gid1094ba,public X-Google-Thread: 114809,68666e29d0425009 X-Google-Attributes: gid114809,public X-Google-Thread: 103376,be6b7e036aa9236c X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Thread: 1014db,be6b7e036aa9236c X-Google-Attributes: gid1014db,public X-Google-Thread: fa0ae,be6b7e036aa9236c X-Google-Attributes: gidfa0ae,public X-Google-Thread: 1164ba,be6b7e036aa9236c X-Google-Attributes: gid1164ba,public X-Google-Thread: 10261c,68666e29d0425009 X-Google-Attributes: gid10261c,public From: adam@irvine.com (Adam Beneschan) Subject: Re: Results of my test: Re: Friday 13th, try it yourself Date: 1996/09/30 Message-ID: <52oq4a$8eo@krusty.irvine.com>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 186274783 references: <52hb32$ns5@sjx-ixn3.ix.netcom.com> organization: /z/news/newsctl/organization 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 Date: 1996-09-30T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: Lee Crites writes: >I find it amazing that I'd be taken to task for saying that "basically" >these results show a uniform distribution -- I figured anyone with >sense enough to read the message in the first place could understand >the term 'basically.' I guess I am wrong on that -- so I guess there >WAS something 'really wrong' with my original message! > >It's my guess that if everyone knew there was only one more from the >beginning, this discussion would have probably never happened! In fact, >I guess if ANYONE knew the above distribution, this discussion wouldn't >have happened. The problem here is that you've completely misunderstood the whole discussion. The person who originally brought this up said simply that the 13th occurs on a Friday more often than any other day. He didn't say "a lot more often" or "significantly more often", just "more often", which is of course a true statement. The objections to this statement came at first from people who believed that this was mathematically impossible (until they figured out that the pattern repeated after 400 years, not 2800). NOBODY was arguing that there was a difference of more than one, and nobody except you understood the argument to be about that. So your "guess" in the second paragraph I quoted above is incorrect. Yes, the discussion is definitely about something that is completely irrelevant to anyone's life, but that happens a lot on USENET. -- Adam