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Re:Everyone is capable of, and can benefit from, mathematica... by cutemonster on Thursday November 21, 2024 @04:07PM (#42208665)
A bit less than two
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Re:Everyone is capable of, and can benefit from, mathematica... by sdeframond on Friday November 22, 2024 @07:49AM (#42213392)
What about Frank Lentini ?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Lentini

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Re:Everyone is capable of, and can benefit from, mathematica... by nolamark on Friday November 22, 2024 @01:27PM (#42216182)
Seems like he has more than the average number of legs as well.

The fact that he has a wiki page, and that many folks with born without or who have lost legs (~500,000/year Americans experience limb loss or are born with a limb difference https://amputee-coalition.org/resources/limb-loss-statistics...) do not, suggest that the number of people with < 2 is far greater than the number of people with > 2. So the average is still less than 2.

For better or worse, number of legs (or number of arms) is canonical example people use to demonstrate the statistical principal a significant majority of a population can be above average of some metric.

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Re:Everyone is capable of, and can benefit from, mathematica... by cutemonster on Monday November 25, 2024 @02:03PM (#42239108)
He must have been an amazing person. I imagine one easily gets bullied, when looking that different. But, from Wikipedia:

> Lentini was so respected among his peers that he was often called "The King".

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