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Re: Really awful TV news report on virus (from 1988)


From: David M Chess <chess () us ibm com>
Date: Tue, 12 Jun 2012 12:59:18 -0400

He got an 'if' statement backward - instead of a 1 in 9 chance of it 
hitting a potential
target, there was an 8 in 9 chance.

He also didn't think hard enough about it to realize that the only 
actually-feasible equilibria for that code in that system were (A) 
extinction, or (B) what actually happened. 

DC
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