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>>>>>>< chuckle > You kids!
>>>>>>
>>>>>>>Neither am I, but I am younger. :o) (not by much, but I'll take what I can get :o)
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>SNIP
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>for some reason I assumed you where younger
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>Why thank you. And I'm not hiding behind an old photo! :-)
>>>>>
>>>>>Alan (Poisson Distribution) Popow
>>>>
>>>>And didn't I just come in real handy when you guys were being buzz bombed during WWII.
>>>
>>>Oh? How so? BTW I wasn't buzz-bombed
>>
>>Poisson Distribution played a large part in trying to predict bombing patterns in London. How about your parents? Cousins? Uncles/Aunts? Friends? Second cousins of your barber's butcher's next-door neighbour?
>
>Yes, I recall seeing summat about this a year or so ago. Oh yes my folks' families lived through (what we call) the Blitz (buzz-bombed?).

That's what they were called - buzz bombs. You can't blame me for that, only for distributing poissons. I think they were called that because of the sound of their engines. They were actually flying bombs, not missiles.

>But I wasn't referring to your being the father of Poisson distribution - rather that at your advanced age you skew the average from a Normal :-)

>Mind you, how did being able to predict bomb patterns do anything to save buildings or lives?

>"Cor blimey, look 'Arry! Jerry's dropped a stick o' bombs just o'er our 'eads, mite!"
>"Down't worry Arfur, ducks. Wot wiv Poisson distribimution an' all, I reckons we'll be quite sife, mi ole china!"

Check this: http://www.britannica.com/eb/art-70818/During-World-War-II-British-statistician-RD-Clarke-demonstrated-that
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