From owner-freebsd-chat Thu Feb 1 16:35:32 1996 Return-Path: owner-chat Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id QAA15166 for chat-outgoing; Thu, 1 Feb 1996 16:35:32 -0800 (PST) Received: from mramirez.sy.yale.edu (mramirez.sy.yale.edu [130.132.57.207]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id QAA15157 for ; Thu, 1 Feb 1996 16:35:26 -0800 (PST) Received: (from mrami@localhost) by mramirez.sy.yale.edu (8.6.12/8.6.9) id TAA29162; Thu, 1 Feb 1996 19:35:05 -0500 Date: Thu, 1 Feb 1996 19:35:05 -0500 (EST) From: Marc Ramirez Reply-To: mrami@minerva.cis.yale.edu To: chat@freebsd.org Subject: Age Counter (was Re: Hackers ages) Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-chat@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk Okay, preliminary results from the Age Counter. Assessing the straight data, accumulated over a roughly 24-hour period, we get: sample: 40 mean: 341.398 This astonishing result is (mostly) due to John "Methuselah" Birrell, who is still poking along at the ripe old age of 12345. If we make like a tobacco industry researcher and ignore his datapoint, we get a more reasonable sample: 39 mean: 33.6136 If we assume that Mr. Birrell mis-typed his actual age (12), we get sample: 40 mean: 33.0733 I'll throw a list of participants as well as some nifty analyses on my homepage later on tonight. First, I must sup (as in eat). Can I make a GIF with GNUplot? Now, for the other side... How old is Linus? 26? That's one point; so far we've got 'em beat! Marc. -- AMAZING BUT TRUE ... If all the salmon caught in Canada in one year were laid end to end across the Sahara Desert, the smell would be absolutely awful.