From: davidc@wa-wd.com   
      
   On Sat, 1 Feb 2025 04:10:26 -0000 (UTC), Louis Epstein    
   wrote:   
      
   >David Carson  wrote:   
   >> On Thu, 30 Jan 2025 22:03:28 -0000 (UTC), Louis Epstein    
   >> wrote:   
   >>   
   >>>tomorrow I overtake a tie,Joel   
   >>>Siegel and Richard Boone,which will presumably lead to one of them   
   >>>being listed as died at my age while the other remains on the older   
   >>>list   
   >>   
   >> I'm pretty sure it's going to show that both of them died at your age,   
   >> since they both did.   
   >>   
   >   
   >So it did,but I remember a tie being processed differently before   
   >(one left the visible list and the other did not).   
      
   That was probably in the younger-than and older-than sections, which are   
   set to return ten records, no more and no less. The old-as section returns   
   however many matches there are, which is zero on most days.   
      
   >So Slim Pickens and Shari Lewis (who died at ages about a month apart)   
   >both arrived on the older-than list,and Dick York and Donna Summer   
   >will both leave the younger-than list tomorrow.   
   >   
   >(Has there ever been a list of sequential oldest living people   
   >in the database?   
      
   Certainly. It's an easy search. It's also on the menu, named a little   
   different from what you described, but essentially the same thing. I'll   
   let you look for it.   
      
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