Re: Marilyn (redux)

[brian whatcott <inet@intellisys.net>]

At 19:09 8/13/97 -0800, you wrote:
....
> Huh?  Oh well, since you *aren't* gloating I suppose it would simply be an
> academic exercise for me to wonder what it is that you might otherwise
> gloat *about.* ;-)  After all, wasn't it *you* who wanted to put the
> numbers d=365, and n=365,366,367 into the formula in the first place?  And
> wasn't it you who then wondered how to account for the results?  If it was
> merely "brute reality" you were concerned with, I thought David explicitly
> and clearly addressed that issue in the very same note in which he gave
> the formula.

> A. John Mallinckrodt 

Actually, David explicitly got the formula for fractional days with 
excess birthdates wrong, as you perhaps still have not noticed?

But he has risen magnificently to the chore, as I now see 
( having returned from my travels) from his follow-up...

(It was excessively churlish of me to harangue you in this way,
I am sure. I wish to apologize unreservedly for my flippant tone,
which I would think makes providing informed academic opinions
in this wild and wooly environment even more tricky...)

Regards

brian whatcott <inet@intellisys.net>
Altus OK