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- From: beaver@castor.cs.psu.edu (Don Beaver)
- Subject: Re: Male Choice Revi (1)
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- Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1992 16:13:56 GMT
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- In article <3156@bsu-cs.bsu.edu> joemays@bsu-cs.bsu.edu (Joseph F. Mays) writes:
- >In article <Bxyv6v.M74@ddsw1.mcs.com> karl@ddsw1.mcs.com (Karl Denninger) writes:
- >>The rate of condom failure is about 5%. If you use them religiously for 10
- >>years as birth control your risk of an accidental pregnancy is a coin toss.
- >
- >Assuming your information os correct, the chance of failure over ten
- >years is less than a coin toss: 40.12630607616 %.
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- This is the second correction that I've seen.
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- Not intending to flame, but didn't anyone learn in high school
- about significant decimal places?
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- (In particular, "about 5%" certainly cannot be seen as "5.000000000000".
- For those handy with calculators, try 7% and see what you get.
- For the overzealous, try 6.6967009%.)
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- Don
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