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Joseph K. Horn

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Jan 31, 2003, 1:05:47 PM1/31/03
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More Math Fun from the Land of the Easily Amused!

Do 8, square root, RDZ. Then:

3*RAND +8*RAND -5*RAND -6*RAND +7*RAND -8*RAND -9*RAND -3*RAND = 1.

My gut feeling is that the above is totally *unexpected*.
And yet, the only reason I went looking for it was because I *expected* it
to occur.

Hmmm.

-Joe- -So many paradoxes, so little time-

"Expect the unexpected" -- full-page advertisement by KLM airlines in Time
magazine on the page facing the story about the Tenerife disaster in which
two KLM 747's collided.


Arnold Steekelenburg

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Jan 31, 2003, 3:35:57 PM1/31/03
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Hi Joe,

The story is very unexpected...... IIRC the Tenerife disaster was
caused by a KLM 747 colliding on the runway with a Pan Am 747 during
take-off..........

Arnold

Joseph K. Horn

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Jan 31, 2003, 6:29:47 PM1/31/03
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Arnold Steekelenburg writes:

> IIRC the Tenerife disaster was caused by a KLM 747
> colliding on the runway with a Pan Am 747 during
> take-off..........

Quite right. I stand corrected. Or, to be precise, I sit corrected.

-Joe-


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