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From: dewar@gnat.com (Robert Dewar)
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Subject: Re: Ada 95 for an ARM-based bare board?
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tmoran@acm.org wrote in message news:<_16c9.144872$aA.31015@sccrnsc02>...

Tom, your attempt to use bogus statistics (I won't even
bother to analyze them in detail here) to cover up a basic
mistake is instructive. I will point my students to this
as an example of how statistics can be used to
obfuscate :-)

The fundamental fact remains that under the only reasonable
assumption which is that added text is approximately constant, the
effect of quoting all previous messages adds
a quadratic effect, not an exponential effect.