Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site h-sc1.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!cmcl2!harvard!h-sc1!shiue From: shiue@h-sc1.UUCP (steve shiue) Newsgroups: net.sport.football Subject: Re: Re: NFL picks, Week 7 Message-ID: <673@h-sc1.UUCP> Date: Wed, 30-Oct-85 18:47:46 EST Article-I.D.: h-sc1.673 Posted: Wed Oct 30 18:47:46 1985 Date-Received: Sun, 3-Nov-85 07:21:46 EST References: <13000036@uiucdcs> <13000042@uiucdcs> Organization: Harvard Univ. Science Center Lines: 26 Keywords: Get with the program, Robert Ekblaw! > > If you look at the score after the spread, you will see that the '!' does > not mean factorial. It does, instead, mean a much higher spread than normal > for a football game pick (I do this as the professional pickers seem to get > really conservative, and go no higher than 10 or so points). I figured that > this would be easy to figure out. I apologize if my system is not dimwit- > proof. Being a logical engineer, I am not normally analyzing a situation > based on how an idiot might examine it. I will try to do better next time. > > Robert A. Ekblaw Robert. Robert, Robert, Robert. Didn't you notice the little smiley faces next to the factorial values? :-) ^This is a smiley face. Aren't you aware that the smiley face is a convention meaning that the author is speaking tongue in cheek? I was under the impression that this convention was "dimwitproof". -Steve Shiue "Ah like that boy. He's about as sharp as a bowlin' ball." -Foghorn Leghorn