[pilowsky]

Not so fast Stephen.

If 288 players completed the tournament, and at least 6 players that I know of did not participate.

It is, therefore, possible that 288 is out by a factor somewhere between 2 and 6. Possibly more.

Think harder before you leap into the white suit of armour. Sometimes it doesn't fit. It didn't fit last time either.

I am underestimating deliberately.

At least I'm spreading out the lines for you

[smerriman]

For the millionth time, AT LEAST is a synonym for GREATER THAN OR EQUAL TO.

You were already provided definitions last time, but try Googling 'at least'. The very first definition is "not less than". Are you saying 20 is not less than 1000?

The number of prime members is at least 20. This is a 100% fact.

I don't know how you can write such long posts and have such a basic misunderstanding of English.

[pilowsky]

Look Stephen. this has nothing to do with "at least".

Vampyr is upset about the number of people that use the prime area. Clearly there are many more than 20. Who knows why this upsets her?

You seem to be distraught about "at least". I don't know why this upsets you. Actually, I think I do know, but I still don't care.

Do you have nothing better to do with your time? People are dying out there. AT LEAST I THINK THEY ARE.

[smerriman]

You're telling Vampyr she is wrong. She is not wrong; you are wrong. This is therefore everything about 'at least'.

She did not say anything at all about being unhappy with the number of people in the prime area. She is unhappy about the fact you are taking a survey of 6 people and using it as evidence of what every prime member wants, when the number of prime members is large. Her definition of large was at least 20; the fact it is larger proves her point even more strongly.

If you're going to post blatantly false information, you're going to have to put up with being corrected. If you're distraught about that, perhaps there is something better you could do with your time.

[pilowsky]

What!!!
I am using inductive logic.
Have you not heard of Bertrand Russell?
288 people played in the Saturday Prime Daylong. Therefore there are at least 288 Prime members.
pilowsky knows of another 6 members who did not play in the tourney.
pilowsky does not know everyone that is member of prime.
When pilowsky plays in prime he notices that almost all the people he sees are strangers.
Therefore pilowsky calculates that there are a lot more than 288 prime members.
You do the maths.

[pilowsky]

Also the Forum challenge is on.

[smerriman]

I agree there are more than 288 Prime members.

Vampyr said there were more than 19 Prime members. This is what "at least 20" means.

You said Vampyr was wrong.

[nullve]

smerriman, on 2020-July-26, 02:20, said:

I agree there are more than 288 Prime members.

Vampyr said there were strictly more than 19 Prime members. This is what "at least 20" means.

You said Vampyr was wrong.

FYP

[pilowsky]

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To be fair, four people voted and two others offered suggestions. How many people are on Prime (paying members). I am guessing at least 20, so the sample size seems small.

Says vampyr What does she mean? Does she mean that there are billions and billions and billions? Or does she mean something else?

Perhaps she means - wait for it....

YES... around about 20.

Who says at least 20 if they are thinking of a number that is around 200?

BUT. the evidence is there are quite a lot more than 20, in fact, actual data suggests more than 288. Using inductive reasoning oh forget it....

Is that how you quote for a job? Do you say I'm going to charge at least $20 for the whole job and then present a bill for $3,000,000,000.

What madness is this

Släng dig i väggen

[gbb483]

Useful thread this - it has just encouraged me to learn how to ignore a poster.

[shyams]

Hahaha, this is becoming puerile asinine.

smerriman, I hope you agree with me that continuing this is a waste of your patience + energy. I hope you can be sure that at least 1 person (which means "zero or one people" ) is 100% in agreement with you.

[pilowsky]

And just to show how useful the prime area is - for me anyway - I made a whole bunch of hands with the playbridge generator so that I could practice defence.

This one just came up:

My North robot went down 1 vulnerable in 4H. I was a bit taken aback until I saw the whole hand. What a great partner!

---

Here's the LIN file, Here's the PBN

[pilowsky]

shyams, on 2020-July-26, 03:41, said:

Hahaha, this is becoming puerile asinine.

smerriman, I hope you agree with me that continuing this is a waste of your patience + energy. I hope you can be sure that at least 1 person (which means "zero or one people" ) is 100% in agreement with you.

Does that mean that perhaps nobody agrees with smerriman?

[gbb483]

pilowsky, on 2020-July-26, 03:44, said:

And just to show how useful the prime area is - for me anyway - I made a whole bunch of hands with the playbridge generator so that I could practice defence.

This one just came up:

My North robot went down 1 vulnerable in 4H. I was a bit taken aback until I saw the whole hand. What a great partner!

---

Here's the LIN file, Here's the PBN

Except the West robot should've doubled the 2D, then the East robot has no problems.

[pilowsky]

You're right! Boy, there's going to be trouble when East gets West home tonight.
There'll be a cold wind blowing for sure.

[barmar]

pilowsky, on 2020-July-26, 03:10, said:

Says vampyr What does she mean? Does she mean that there are billions and billions and billions? Or does she mean something else?

Perhaps she means - wait for it....

YES... around about 20.

Who says at least 20 if they are thinking of a number that is around 200?

BUT. the evidence is there are quite a lot more than 20, in fact, actual data suggests more than 288. Using inductive reasoning oh forget it....

Is that how you quote for a job? Do you say I'm going to charge at least $20 for the whole job and then present a bill for $3,000,000,000.

What madness is this

Släng dig i väggen

I think she just picked a number that was significantly more than the 4 people who voted and/or suggested.

If the number is actually many times larger, it just reinforces her point: the people posting here might not be representative of the Prime community.