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Subject: Re: 12th WCCC, Bar-Ilan University, Ramat-Gan, Israel, July 4th-12th 200

Author: Tony Werten

Date: 00:01:44 12/04/03

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On December 03, 2003 at 17:55:57, Uri Blass wrote:

>On December 03, 2003 at 09:48:41, Tony Werten wrote:
>
>>On December 03, 2003 at 07:08:27, Steve Maughan wrote:
>>
>>>Bob,
>>>
>>>>a.  What is your official title?
>>>
>>>Was Director, now Associate Partner.  But (Title = NULL) IMHO!
>>>
>>>>b.  I can amend my statement to say 99.999% of corp execs don't write
>>>>chess programs.  :)
>>>
>>>Errr, I think 99.999% of any profession (including professors) don't write chess
>>>programs ;-))
>>
>>I'll add to that over 99.99999983% of earths population don't write
>>chessprograms.
>>
>>Tony
>
>Wrong

You might want to reread what I have written and what you have written.


BTW your estimate of earths population is about 40% off.

>
>We have more than 200 chess programs by different authors and even if we assume
>that half of them are clones we have 100 original chess programs by different
>authors and I do not count people who write chess programs and never released
>them.
>
>earth population is less than 10,000,000,000 humans so
>100/10,000,000,000 is 0.00000001=0.000001% so we have less than 99.999999% who
>write chess programs and certainly less than 99.99999983% who do not write chess
>programs.

So we have less than 99.99% who write and less than 99.99 who don't write ?

That's quite a bold statement, but I'll go one step further.

If there is anyone who does then there is less than 100% who does and less than
100% who doesn't :)

Tony

>
>Uri



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