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Re: Polls For the Excessively Literate
Posted By: Arley, on host 209.240.218.13
Date: Thursday, June 20, 2002, at 22:56:35
In Reply To: Re: Polls For the Excessively Literate posted by Ellmyruh on Thursday, June 20, 2002, at 22:44:54:

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> > > Ell"Sometimes insouciantly verbose, usually mildly corybantic"myruh
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> > Don "Wonders if anyone would like to calculate out the precise number of words which the remaining 5% would have to know in order for Elly's seven words to be precisely average, if we assume that the population is sufficiently large that Elly's individual contribution to the average has negligible effect" Monkey
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> Next poll: How good are Monkeyman's counting skills?
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> Ell"Ducking and running"myruh

I'm with you Ellmyruh! I just don't have the math skills to figure it out...But I bet I could follow the math that is need to solve the above little poser.
Just have no idea where to start!

Ar"There once was a question posed by MM
That frightened Arley and the wonderful Em!
The question to duck!
To MM--good luck
We'll all have the math checked by Sm!"ley

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