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Re:Spam Back to 94% of All E-Mail by bdr on Tuesday March 31, 2009 @03:52PM (#540689)
What law of big numbers are you referring to?
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Re:Spam Back to 94% of All E-Mail by Femur on Tuesday March 31, 2009 @04:21PM (#540745)
After 10 minutes of searching on Wikipedia, i could find no reference to it even though I have heard of the law many times before.

Essentially the law of big numbers states that "A very large number multiplied by a small number is still a large number"

As the poster indicated, even a few minutes of daily span cleanup multiplied by millions of people equates to quite a bit of time.

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Re:Spam Back to 94% of All E-Mail by Rexxar on Tuesday March 31, 2009 @06:51PM (#541002)
It's large, not big :-) and it has a different meaning

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Law_of_large_numbers

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