Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 10:23:51 05/02/02
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On May 02, 2002 at 12:06:29, Daniel Clausen wrote: >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 2*.7 == 1.4 That is doubling in my book... :)
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