From owner-freebsd-chat Sat Aug 16 13:10:44 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id NAA08368 for chat-outgoing; Sat, 16 Aug 1997 13:10:44 -0700 (PDT) Received: from kani.wwa.com (kani.wwa.com [198.49.174.58]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id NAA08362; Sat, 16 Aug 1997 13:10:42 -0700 (PDT) Received: from 205.243.69.159/pool3-015.rkfd.wwa.com [205.243.69.144] by kani.wwa.com with esmtp (Smail3.2.WWA) id m0wzpBF-004pLkC; Sat, 16 Aug 1997 15:10:40 -0500 (CDT) Message-ID: <33F609E4.4E5D9A6C@flask.com> Date: Sat, 16 Aug 1997 15:13:46 -0500 From: Shin Katsumata Reply-To: skat@flask.com Organization: Flask Productions X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.01 (Macintosh; I; PPC) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Julian H. Stacey" , chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: speed test X-Priority: 3 (Normal) References: <199708161005.MAA02831@desk.jhs.no_domain> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; x-mac-type="54455854"; x-mac-creator="4D4F5353" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Julian H. Stacey wrote: > Reference: > > From: dkelly@hiwaay.net > > Date: Fri, 15 Aug 1997 22:19:02 -0500 > > Message-id: <199708160319.WAA05640@nospam.hiwaay.net> > > Hi, > dkelly@hiwaay.net wrote: > > Poul-Henning Kamp writes: > > > > > > That should be moderately easy: Grab lites and get moving... > > > > > > I somehow doubt that there are many Mac owners who are into UNIX > ... > > > > I've always said, "Gimme a Mac, or gimme Unix, keep the half-baked > poor excus > > e Microsoft boxes to yourself." Maybe I'm 3-sigma? > > What does "3-sigma" mean in English ? > (I'm English not American, perhaps others were puzzled too ?) > 1 - sigma is 68.26% of population2 - sigma is 95.44% 3 - sigma is 99.74% (for those of you who wants to argue, I am getting the number out of a table for Normal Curve Area for 0 to z and I multiplied the number by 2). To translate "3-sigma" to semi-English (English is my second language, ok?), he may be one of 0.13% of population to want either Mac or unix: (100 - 99.74)/2.0. Shin