Author: Daniel Clausen
Date: 09:06:29 05/02/02
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On May 02, 2002 at 11:54:55, Robert Hyatt wrote: >On May 01, 2002 at 14:59:49, Christophe Theron wrote: [snip] >>More and more? Probably, yes. Last time I checked the stats of >>www.chesstiger.com I had 0.7% visitors using Linux. Now it's 1.4%. That's >>progress of a sort... > > > >OK... since you don't quite follow exponential math, here is an offer: > >Today give me one penny. Tomorrow give me double that. And do so for an >entire month. At the end of the month I will give you $100 so you make a >big profit for this exercise. > >Ready to go? > >Hint: "doubling" is _not_ a tiny increase... It is huge... Now now, we're a bit unfair here, Bob. ;) Firstly, Christophe didn't use the term "doubling" here, but "progress of a sort", which is not the same. Secondly, after only to datapoints (0.7% and now 1.4%) it's a bit hard to conclude that the percentage follows the doubling pattern. Sargon
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