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To: The Philosopher who wrote (44601)7/9/1999 5:02:00 AM
From: nihil  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 108807
 
With the normal curve we are after all talking probabilities, and while rhe expected value of number of persons in some range is very very small, the probability of a person appearing at ten or 20 sigma from the mean is finite but very, very small. I think you should review your elementary statistics once again.