From: marmadukejinks99@gmail.com   
      
   On 15/03/2024 16:05, nigel wrote:   
   > Marmaduke Jinks wrote:   
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   >> On 14/03/2024 22:36, Marmaduke Jinks wrote:   
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   >>> On 14/03/2024 12:50, nigel wrote:   
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   >>>> I'm also wondering about the wisdom of using anthropocentric   
   >>>> measurement criteria. Perhaps using the approximate square root of   
   >>>> the number of balls might be better, so 6/49 would use 7 and 6/59   
   >>>> would use 8. But then, should the number of balls drawn also count?   
   >>>>   
   >>> Do you know we talk about that all the time down the pub ;-)   
   >   
   > There's still a pub open where you live?????   
      
   where else would I go for a game of cribbage?   
      
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   >>>   
   >>> Does someone like Gail Howard have a definition?   
   >   
   > No eye deer   
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   >>>   
   >>> MJ   
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   >>>   
   >> as an afterthought are you interested in Decades from the point of   
   >> view of:   
   >>   
   >> a) this decade is "hot" and the next number could come from there; or   
   >> b) this decade is "cold" and so the next number is bound to come from   
   >> here?   
   >   
   > It's not that simple but a) is closer. There is a concept of a decade   
   > being due a certain number of hits but there are all sorts of weird   
   > constraints involved, almost certainly a product of my fervid imaginings.   
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   >>   
   >> MJ   
   >   
   I see Ion Saliu, late of this parish, has a small monograph on it   
      
   https://saliu.com/decades.html   
      
   MJ   
      
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