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Subject: Re: yes I mean 8 , which is the best? they are equal!

Author: Jorge

Date: 12:39:39 01/09/03

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On January 08, 2003 at 19:16:06, stuart taylor wrote:

>On January 08, 2003 at 17:47:54, Rajen Gupta wrote:
>
>>On January 08, 2003 at 17:44:46, Elnur wrote:
>>
>>>yes I mean 8 , which is the best?
>>
>>toss a coin again; in simple english they are so evenly matched that any
>>difference in outcome would be similar to tossing a coin.
>
>Similar, maybe. But a good few ELO points more for Fritz, is obvious. Like if
>you toss a coin 100 times it might be 50 one side and 50 on the other side, but
>after about 103 tosses it will be 50 on one side and 53 on the other.
> This will prove that the one with 53 is a nice few ELO points stronger!

This proves that?? How on earth do you figure that? Maybe psychologically, but
certainly not statistically.

jorge

>So It's not EXACTLY the same as tossing a coin 103 times!
>S.Taylor



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