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Re:Death by hockey sticks by Trombone12 on Wednesday September 14, 2022 @08:28AM (#32836179)
What are you trying to achieve by pointing out one of the ways to construct an incorrect model of the passenger pigeon population?
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Re:Death by hockey sticks by Archelaos on Wednesday September 14, 2022 @12:26PM (#32839490)
a) I did not construct the model.

b) Using real numbers to reason about integer base values is not wrong per se. You just need to know how to interpret the result.

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