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Subject: Re: Waltzing Matilda (was: statistics, 10 events tell us what ?

Author: Bruce Moreland

Date: 07:51:44 08/17/98

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On August 16, 1998 at 17:57:07, fca wrote:

>I did not want to confine a retraction, however slight, to email.
>
>The point about the 16 consecutive wins - in a 'string' where occasional wins do
>occur - remains valid.  A match has a defined starting point.

Right.  A match always has a defined starting and ending point.  Usually when
someone plays a computer on the net, they play several games in a row, with
little break between them.  If someone won the first one then lost the next
nine, I would say that they had lost nine out of ten, not that they'd lost ten
in a row.

bruce



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