Author: Uri Blass
Date: 00:48:52 12/04/03
Go up one level in this thread
On December 04, 2003 at 03:01:44, Tony Werten wrote: >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 ? It is correct but it is not what I meant and it should be: "less than 99.999999% who *do not* write chess programs and certainly less than 99.99999983% who do not write chess programs." I forgot one "do not" Uri
This page took 0 seconds to execute
Last modified: Thu, 15 Apr 21 08:11:13 -0700
Current Computer Chess Club Forums at Talkchess. This site by Sean Mintz.