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Subject: Re: Reproducibility of Nunn matches is not so good

Author: Dann Corbit

Date: 23:59:24 05/01/00

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A coin is approximately fair.

Flip it 20 times.  Heads is program A.  Tails is program B.  The odds of exactly
10:10 is very, very low.

Try repeating the experiment ten times.  You may be surprised at the wide
variety that you see.

This is reflected in the results for nearly equal programs.




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