From: Dr John Stockton <jrs@merlyn.demon.co.uk>
Subject: Re: Results of my test: Re: Friday 13th, try it yourself
Date: 1996/10/03
Date: 1996-10-03T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <6TAs9aAEEEVyEweG@merlyn.demon.co.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: bii3ezwnwlc.fsf@sbil.co.uk
In article <bii3ezwnwlc.fsf@sbil.co.uk> of Thu, 3 Oct 1996 11:58:07 in
comp.lang.pascal.misc, James Gillespie <jim.gillespie@sbil.co.uk> wrote:
> At the risk of prolonging this thread, there has been recent
>discussion over how long a time period must be analysed to get a
>correct distribution. One value put forward was 4800 years. While
>this is very interesting in a theoretical way, what about the last
>hundred years or so? If Friday 13ths are unevenly spread through the
>4800 years there must be local maxima and minima. Are we currently in
>an epoch in which there are a comparatively large number of Friday
>13ths?
>
> Jim
>
>Jim Gillespie ,'_ "Happiness is being famous for your
>jim@sbil.co.uk / -.--. ___ financial ability to indulge in
>+44 171 721 2672 _~\ \__`--'_,-' every form of excess"
> / /\\ `--'_-\\ -- Calvin
>'94 ZZR600 \__/ `----' \__/
No. One seventh of 13ths fall on each day of the week, **BETWEEN** 1900
& 2100 AD. The full Gregorian calendar repeats every 400 years, and a
repeat contains a slight excess if F13. See URL below. As I said
before.
Recommend you also read Son-of-RFC1036 sec 4.3.2 end re signature
separation, quoted in URL below +news-use.htm
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John Stockton, Surrey, UK. JRS@merlyn.demon.co.uk Turnpike v1.12 MIME
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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 ` Daan Sandee
1996-10-03 0:00 ` Dr John Stockton [this message]
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1996-09-25 0:00 Friday 13th, try it yourself (was Language Wars..) 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 ` Lee Crites
1996-09-26 0:00 ` Adam Beneschan
1996-09-27 0:00 ` Glen Clark
1996-09-26 0:00 ` John Winters
1996-09-26 0:00 ` Daan Sandee
1996-09-26 0:00 ` Jeff Drummond
1996-09-30 0:00 ` Ray Dunn
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
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