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Subject: Re: Pro Deo 1.0 - testseries

Author: Chris Welty

Date: 01:59:01 10/02/04

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On October 02, 2004 at 00:13:09, Daniel Jackson wrote:

>Bet you wouldn't believe that a stronger program could lose 10 straight games
>yet it has happened.

Of course it will happen if you play enough games.

> Simply put there isn't enough games to be certain of anything,
>but it appears that these settings might be the reason...and I say might...we
>don't know yet..
>
>I don't know and you don't know....could be book wins and losses...we don't
>know, we have no games to look at...see to see why this result occurred.

We can never be 100% certain, however enough games were played that the result
is statistically meaningful. It is not within the margin of error.

More games always help of course.



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