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To: M. Frank Greiffenstein who wrote (534)	12/7/2000 2:04:43 PM
From: GraceZ	Respond to of 24758

So the total universe of all 3 letter unique combos are 26 X 25 X 24 or 15,600. Yeah, but Frank C. has most of those three letter combos covered so that leaves just 263 for Clark to play with.

To: M. Frank Greiffenstein who wrote (534)	12/7/2000 2:40:28 PM
From: gpowell	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 24758

You have described the sample space of all possible 3 letter combinations. However, CVK would never be used for a computer name. KKK, ASS, or other combinations would be rejected for obvious reasons. The list of all possible and acceptable 3 letter combinations would define the event space. So assume the event space is designated as the set A, and B defines the simple event “HAL”. Then the probability of B given A is equal to the probability that both A and B occur divided by the probability of A occurring. Which is simply P(B)/P(A). Or what Grace said.

To: M. Frank Greiffenstein who wrote (534)	12/7/2000 10:45:32 PM
From: ahhaha	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 24758

I read the link. I assume that "I want to stamp out that story" refers to the story that H, A and L are letters left-adjacent to I, B and M. Is that the right assumption to make? Clark said HAL = heuristic algorithmic, but that doesn't refer to anything because it's two adjectives. Also, your assumption was built on what he wrote in Odyssey II, which was Heuristic ALgorithmic. The probability that AL follows any letter is 0. The odds that HAL was devised from IBM is 0, and that was what he stated. Thus, both of you computed the wrong thing. I do admit I understand your computation, but there is no mathematical way to get his. There is a product space inherent in this problem that has no residue subspace, but 263 is prime, and can't form anything but degenerate spaces and itself. The diophantine equation, (ax+by)(cz+dw)(er+fs) = 263, can't be solved in integers except degenerately.