My count comes from my spreadsheet. :)
--Pat K
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>From: "Jerry Mouton" <jerry@moutons.org>
>To: "Ms Katie Kelly" <aceontour@yahoo.com>, <ba-autox@autox.team.net>
>Subject: Re: Re:participation per class (discussion fodder)
>Date: Fri, Jun 6, 2003, 9:57 AM
>
> Huh?
>
> How'd you count? I just did it by hand, twice, and got
> 128. With one FR, one DNW, that makes 126 entrants.
> Try this file, it's easier to count:
>
> http://www.sfrscca.org/solo2/Results/2003/Championship/Round9.wres
>
> No script, BTW, I type them by hand from what Pat
> figures out.
>
> Jerry Mouton "Laissez les bons temps rouler!"
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Ms Katie Kelly" <aceontour@yahoo.com>
> To: <ba-autox@autox.team.net>
> Sent: Friday, June 06, 2003 9:12 AM
> Subject: Re:participation per class (discussion fodder)
>
>
>> I'm not a mathematician, nor do I play one on tv. But
>> I do work as a technical writer for a software company
>> which means I have a basic high school education.
>>
>> The Entrants column at:
>> http://www.sfrscca.org/solo2/Results/2003/
>>
>> lists the number for each round. You can add up the
>> totals for all events, and then divide by the number
>> of events. I just did it, and it gave me 236.
>>
>> It has been suggested that the Entrants column does
>> not accurately reflect the number of entrants at each
>> event. Perhaps there is an error in the script. To
>> verify, we could go through each class and add up the
>> entrants, and then round up, or we can just count how
>> many entrants were at the event. Again, I'm not a
>> mathematician. For this study, I chose the event with
>> the smallest number of entrants, due to my short
>> attention span. That would be Round 9 at Stockton,
>> with a supposed entry count of 126.
>>
>> One moment please as our system checks the
>> calculations.
>>
>> Weird. I counted 135.
>>
>> Let's leave the stats to Rich.
>>
>> -Katie Kelly
>>
>> --- Richard Urschel <osp13@mybluelight.com> wrote:>
>> > As Jack Van Wettering said to me as I stalled the
>> > Lotus while pulling onto the trailer; "Rookie."
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