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  2. From: wbdst+@pitt.edu (William B Dwinnell)
  3. Newsgroups: sci.math.stat
  4. Subject: Re: Desperate situation
  5. Message-ID: <2581@blue.cis.pitt.edu>
  6. Date: 26 Jan 93 21:56:09 GMT
  7. Article-I.D.: blue.2581
  8. References: <1993Jan26.183234.20186@mksol.dseg.ti.com> <00967313.5DA0F1C0@uinpla.npl.uiuc.edu>
  9. Sender: news+@pitt.edu
  10. Organization: University of Pittsburgh
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  14. Rex: How are you defining the "average"? Do you mean the mean number of tries
  15. successfully past by all people trying this? Do you mean the number of
  16. tries at which half the people are dead? Possibly you mean something
  17. else altogether?
  18.