>>>>>>>>>< chuckle > You kids!
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>>>>>>>>>>Neither am I, but I am younger. :o) (not by much, but I'll take what I can get :o)
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>>>>>>>>>>SNIP
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>>>>>>>>>>>>for some reason I assumed you where younger
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>>>>>>>>>>>Why thank you. And I'm not hiding behind an old photo! :-)
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>>>>>>>>Alan (Poisson Distribution) Popow
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>>>>>>>And didn't I just come in real handy when you guys were being buzz bombed during WWII.
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>>>>>>Oh? How so? BTW I wasn't buzz-bombed
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>>>>>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?
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>>>>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?). 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 :-)
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>>>>Mind you, how did being able to predict bomb patterns do anything to save buildings or lives?
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>>>>"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!"
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>>>buzz bomb was the german V1 called that because the engine made a buzzing sound.
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>>Maybe, but we called the Doodlbugs didn't we? I've seen and heard them on film and their engines make a deep rumbling sound, hardly a buzz.
>>Oh, well I think they only affected the southern counties anyway, so my families weren't bothered by them.
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>The government used to misreport where they landed so the germans thought they where overshooting and adjusted so a lot of them landed short of London.
>But as you say they didn't have the range to reach the North.

Ha Ha! That makes good sense! Use your enemy's success reporting as a range finder! Why did we need undercover SAS troops in Iraq, with laser sights to guide bombs in when we could have just listened to the Iraqi radio news to see how well we were doing :-)