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

Author: Tony Werten

Date: 01:43:45 12/04/03

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On December 04, 2003 at 03:48:52, Uri Blass wrote:

>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"

I thought so, but I wrote "more than 99.99999983% do not"

Tony

>
>Uri



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