On Sunday, October 27, 2013 2:07:53 AM UTC+5:30, Peter Cacioppi wrote: > Rusi said: > > > Users of GG are requested to read and follow these instructions > > https://wiki.python.org/moin/GoogleGroupsPython > > Yes, I read those instructions and found them fairly opaque. If you want to > instruct "children" (odd that I find myself categorized that way on a CS > forum, but whatever) then you use pictures.
The children is intended almost literally: GG claims that the python list (or its version thereof) has 21447 'members'. I am willing to bet that the average age of the 21447 humans whose records are in google's dbms is between half and one-third of those that use usenet channels. I am speaking a bit legalistically because just as statisticians will argue about what 'average' (or mean) means, likewise we could argue about what a 'member' means: - someone who joins but does not post - someone who joins and does not even read - someone who posts frequently. [What's the frequency threshold?] And which is why I quoted the passage from mathsemantics in the other thread (repeated below). So all we can really infer is that the table in some GG database contains 21447 records ------------ I 1980 I was one passenger, ten passengers, eighteen passengers, thirty-six passengers, forty-two passengers, fifty-five passengers, seventy-two passengers and ninety-four passengers. Each of these statements is true. ----------- ... explanation... ----------- I was one passenger in the sense that I was a person who traveled by air in that year. I was eighteen passengers in the sense that I made eighteen round trips. I was forty-two passengers in the sense that on forty-two different occasions I entered and exited the system of a different carrier. I was seventy-two passengers in the sense that on seventy-two occasions I was on board an aircraft when it took off from one place and landed at another. I was ninety-four passengers in the sense that I made ninety-four separate entrances and exits from airport terminal buildings. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
