[QUOTE=LaurV;502259]HA! One friend of mine who is statistician has an even better one, he use to say that "the average human has only half of a penis"....[/QUOTE]

I think more than 99% of all people have more legs than the average. That average is 1.99 legs. /JeppeSN

well.. actually if you go to decimals, my score is 54%, because there are more men than women... and yes, the joke makes more sense in languages where "man" and "human" use the same word (we could not translate it properly in English).

[QUOTE=LaurV;502369]well.. actually if you go to decimals, my score is 54%, because there are more men than women... and yes, the joke makes more sense in languages where "man" and "human" use the same word (we could not translate it properly in English).[/QUOTE]The score goes down if you use "person", since corporations are considered persons with legal rights, at least in the US. And down further if you use it in jurisdictions such as Washington DC containing more female humans than male humans.

[QUOTE=Dr Sardonicus;502267]One misformulation of statistical info that makes me [i]cringe[/i] is of the type, "On average, ... each ((and) every) ..." like

"On average, x number of babies are born in the US [i]each second[/i]."

"On average, x number of people die (of such and such a cause ) [i]each and every day[/i]."

"On average, there are x number of mass shootings [i]every week.[/i]"

Just imagine: "On average, [i]each and every[/i] American family has 2.4 kids..."

Talk about a lot of mutant kids![/QUOTE]So how would you prefer those to be phrased so that they don't make you cringe?

[QUOTE=Madpoo;502124]Majority rules. 67.3% of the Earth's landmass is north of the equator. :smile: We win![/QUOTE]Well if winning is that important to you then so be it, winter is when you say it is winter.

[QUOTE=JeppeSN;502337]I think more than 99% of all people have more legs than the average. That average is 1.99 legs. /JeppeSN[/QUOTE]

I've also observed that there are more horses @$$es in the world than there are horses.

[QUOTE=Madpoo;502086]I'm keeping an eye on the first-time checks below 82M. Currently just 13 of them to go. The ones still progressing will finish soon, I think, with the exception of one assigned to Kriesel. There are some that stopped checking in though, and they don't expire until January, so unless they get poached, I guess we shouldn't hold out hopes for 2018.[/QUOTE]
Now down to 8. Mine's reported, from a gpu-self-poach parallel run so cleared.

I had thought to send a polite alert PM to the relevant users (5) whose 81.x LL assignments have stopped updating. Something along the lines of [CODE]Hi,

Please check on your remaining GIMPS LL test assignment listed in [URL]https://www.mersenne.org/assignments/?exp_lo=81759773&exp_hi=82000000&execm=1&exp1=1&extf=1&exdchk=1[/URL]
It seems to have stalled days or weeks ago.
Completing it, or alternately if you prefer, unreserving it so it can be assigned to someone else, will help GIMPS reach the milestone of all exponents tested once below 82 million sooner, perhaps this year yet.


Thanks![/CODE]None of the 5 user IDs are valid forum IDs for a PM. Maybe there are valid emails stored as part of their GIMPS signups.
Does the GIMPS administration have a way of contacting them? It could help. Two of the 5 assignments won't expire until several days into January. The 5 stalled assignments represent a lot of work done already, at 42.8%, 50.2, 78.0, 91.6, and 96.4%. The 96.4% is a day's progress away from estimated completion but expires in January. The 78% expires in January and is less than a week's progress from estimated completion. (If a hard drive crash without backup took them out, oh well, but it would be good to get them restarted, or reassigned soon if the user quit.)

patience, grasshopper.

We'll get there when we get there.

I have 2 under 82M they should both be done in 5-6 days now that my computer is back up.

[QUOTE=masser;502646]patience, grasshopper.

We'll get there when we get there.[/QUOTE]
Are we there yet? Nope, 5 left, one in ATH's capable hands, other 4 still stalled, 2 of which don't expire until January 2019.

I've made a tabulation of how the minor milestones have advanced over the years of GIMPS operation, and posted it at [URL]https://www.mersenneforum.org/showpost.php?p=502995&postcount=11[/URL] as part of a GIMPS progress thread [URL="https://www.mersenneforum.org/showthread.php?t=23845"]https://www.mersenneforum.org/showthread.php?t=23845 [/URL]in the reference material collection [URL]https://www.mersenneforum.org/forumdisplay.php?f=154[/URL]

Are we there yet? Nope, 3 left, two of which expire in the next 3 days, the other doesn't expire until ~"December 37th".