On Tue, 9 Jul 2002, Dave Hoover wrote:
> 
> I'd like to mention that alien-in-training, Markko Nippula, who
> hasn't finished with anything worse than a -6 Y-index since TPR(0,1) has a
> Y-index of 143.  That is the downfall of the Y-index, if your first outing
> is bad, you're screwed for life.  At his current pace, Markko would need 18
> more months of monthly golf tournaments just to get back to a Y-index of 0.
> 

Exponential weighting, anyone?

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Stephen Turner, Cambridge, UK    http://homepage.ntlworld.com/adelie/stephen/
"This is Henman's 8th Wimbledon, and he's only lost 7 matches." BBC, 2/Jul/01

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