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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