Re: A86: Questions on Port 3, calc on, off, APD, etc
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Re: A86: Questions on Port 3, calc on, off, APD, etc
This makes me think it'd be nice to have a list of everyone on this list.
But ticalc won't let you use Majordomo's list people function. It'd also
be cool to have everyone's City/State/Country, age, and ICQ/AIM/IRC names.
At 04:29 PM 6/8/98 -0400, you wrote:
>
>>actually if you're on a list with only 30 people, i'd venture to say that
>it's
>>very likely that there are two people on it that live within a half-hour of
>each
>>other, and even more likely within an hour. (that's assuming that the
>>population is equally dense which it's not, but add some more people and it
>>accounts for that, and this list probably has 100 or so at least)
>
>
>With over 4 billion people on the earth?? Even in the US with 50 states,
>suppose there are two people
>per state right? That is assuming (incorrectly) that everyone here lives in
>the US. Now 2 people per state,
>hell in Florida it takes over 3.5 hours just to leave the state. You got to
>know that! Now living 30 minutes away meaning
>that me being 1, the other person would have to be in a 30 minute region of
>over 7 hours of driving from the PanHandle to Bahamas, finish of Florida,
>giving 30 min / 7 hours or 1/14 chance. Now if we assume that only maybe a
>1/4 of the people in the world live in the US (probably much much less) then
>that makes the chance 1/48. Of course we also have to take account terrain
>capibilities, the U.S. has roads but not every country has roads, some
>states may have hills (not Florida!), so we would have calculate the length
>of the arc because the car has to drive OVER the hill and that involves
>trigonometry.. and you may be considering 1/2 hour where "as the crow flies"
>however roads and paths many not have such direct routes, so you cannot
>use Pythagorean's theorm there..so dont even get me started!!
>
>Just joking ;)
>
>Later,
> Matt
>
>
>
// David Phillips
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