From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Thu, 6 Mar 2008 07:16:38 +0100 From: Enrico Weigelt To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu> Subject: Re: [9fans] thoughs about venti+fossil Message-ID: <20080306061637.GC18329@nibiru.local> References: <20080305055255.GA4575@nibiru.local> <7f575fa27b41329b9ae24f40e6e5a3cd@plan9.bell-labs.com> <20080306040441.GA18329@nibiru.local> <14ec7b180803052015k6957e809p7c58dfa03545e026@mail.gmail.com> <775b8d190803052031m36e2c44ap319073cb857de8bd@mail.gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <775b8d190803052031m36e2c44ap319073cb857de8bd@mail.gmail.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i Topicbox-Message-UUID: 712ab8b6-ead3-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 * Bruce Ellis wrote: > it's even sillier, if everyone bought 1,000,000 times as many tickets > guess how that would change the probabilities. not at all! The main problem is: statistics is not reliable. You just can guess how many times approx. something will happen if you take a really large number of tries. You can never be sure for a single case. cu -- --------------------------------------------------------------------- Enrico Weigelt == metux IT service - http://www.metux.de/ --------------------------------------------------------------------- Please visit the OpenSource QM Taskforce: http://wiki.metux.de/public/OpenSource_QM_Taskforce Patches / Fixes for a lot dozens of packages in dozens of versions: http://patches.metux.de/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------