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Subject: Re: Fritz 5.32 vs Shredder 8.

Author: Drexel,Michael

Date: 08:40:19 01/19/04

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On January 19, 2004 at 11:32:51, Fernando Villegas wrote:

>That argument that A win B and B win C, so A win  C, but no sir, "not right",  I
>have heard it too many times and seems to be kind of an axiom, but it is not so
>if you let aside the real of silogysm.
>I would say that If A wins B 80% of times and B wins C 80% of times, there are
>good reasonm to believe A will be superior to C some good % of times.
>In other words, in a realm of probablilities, not sheer propositional logic, the
>ABC string get anoter sense.
>fdo

B didn't win C 80% of times.

Such a conclusion does not make any sense if A,B are computer programs and C is
a human.

Michael



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