Dates (was: No Go Lenovo)

[Martin Owens]

> > > >Yes, it's ambiguous, but so is about 40% of what humans do,

Oh I know, I'm moaning more at the problem that the data is
interpreted as more that 6 things (fractions, dates, dates, dates,
odds and measurements) ambiguous is too light a word, the context
chooses dates but there are 3 ways to interpret slowing reading and
enjoyment of the story, sort of like reading French when you don't
speak French.

> > 89.7% of all statistics are made up on the spot.

Yes but only 0.04% of people know that.

> Heh, at least you know how to properly represent percentages to
> humans!  I formatted my percentages for printf !!!

funny enough I didn't even notice you put the percent sign in front.
you can spell as much as you like wrong, make as many grammatical
errors; but god help you if your dates are ambiguous. ;-)

Regards, Martin

On 10/05/07, Kristian Hermansen <kristian.hermansen at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 5/10/07, Dan Ritter <dsr at tao.merseine.nu> wrote:
> > On Thu, May 10, 2007 at 09:21:41AM -0400, Kristian Hermansen wrote:
> > > On 5/10/07, David Kramer <david at thekramers.net> wrote:
> > > >Yes, it's ambiguous, but so is about 40% of what humans do,
> > >
> > > I'm curious as to how you derived the value %40.  Maybe that falls
> > > into your own %40 definition of ambiguity :-)
> >
> > 89.7% of all statistics are made up on the spot.
>
> Heh, at least you know how to properly represent percentages to
> humans!  I formatted my percentages for printf !!!
>
> /me ducks into a corner to avoid being slapped around by Martin Owens...
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