thomblake comments on [POLL] Year survey - Less Wrong

7 Post author: thomblake 09 December 2011 08:00PM

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Comment author: thomblake 09 December 2011 09:46:08PM 0 points [-]

I assume you had to pick a range.

Comment author: lavalamp 09 December 2011 10:05:33PM 3 points [-]

A mathematician can probably give a better way to pick without setting an upper bound, but I did:

(current year + (p/(1-p)) where .5 < p < 1.0

Comment author: shminux 09 December 2011 09:48:50PM 0 points [-]

It was happy to accept roman numerals (and presumably any input at all)