Mathematically impossible

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Re: Mathematically impossible

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Cheers rob .. So we can still be relegated then...

kipax (one p ) by my reckoning if crawley lose tonight we are safe on goal difference!!!
come on you harriers!!!
 
Fantastic!!!! I sadly couldn't see the game on my stupid Freeview box. A compilation of games highlights would be a great idea. Back in the League...Wow...takes me back to watching the Reds at the Peel Park (my first school) ground!!!!
All the best to the team from an Accy supporters club member exiled in London ...and soon to be even further away in Tokyo!!
 
Well, it is nice to see that the difference between mathematical certainty and statistical probablity has been established. The sharp eyed amongst you will have spotted the fatal conceptual flaw in Rob's betting table link.
For those of you you ain't,the column stating "lowest possible position" is of course, incorrect; Stanley could only end up third from bottom on the basis that every other individual team won every subsequent game; you don't need to be a brain surgeon to work out that this is not quite possible.

Here's a more interesting mathamatical conindrum for you to calculate. For Stanley's second goal last night, and assuming that Mullen shot from 15ft from the nearest goallpost,and the ball missed that nearest post by 2" on the outside and then passed the far post by 2" on the inside, what was the angle of shot?
 
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Nice one Tealeaf, was only thinking the same myself about Rob's table.

Degrees or radians? (That would be Mullin, BTW)
 
Tealeaf said:
Here's a more interesting mathamatical conindrum for you to calculate. For Stanley's second goal last night, and assuming that Mullen shot from 15ft from the nearest goallpost,and the ball missed that nearest post by 2" on the outside and then passed the far post by 2" on the inside, what was the angle of shot?
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After last night, followed by a hard day at work, my brain hurts just reading that bit!!
 
BLACKBURN RAVER said:
1. sky sports last night

2. i dont need to, i didnt come up with it so i dont need to work it out :D
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The mind boggles, do you repeat everything you hear without thinking?
 
Oggy said:
The mind boggles, do you repeat everything you hear without thinking?
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thinking ? whats that :confused:
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These are my workings

To be absolutly sure of winning we need 27 points (at the moment)

Below is list of the maximum points each team could get if they win every game

Accrington 106
Hereford 93
Grays 90
Exeter 86
Stevenage 86
Morecombe 87
Halifax 87
Woking 83
Gravesend 84
York 83
Dag and Red 79
Burton 77
Aldeshot 77
Alty 72
Cambridge 75
Kiddy 71
Canvey 71
Forest 68
Tamworth 69
Crawley 70
Southport 65
Scarboough 61

At the moment we need to beat Hereford with a possible maximum of 93.
That leaves us 27 points to get
Of course this will all change after tonight but for all those number crunchers I'll keep you posted. (If you want)
You'll have to forgive all the maths (I am a teacher after all!)

Hope someone finds this interesting

COME ON YOU REDS

Worzel
(David)
 
worzel said:
Hope someone finds this interesting
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Yes, spot on. I think some people got it, and had a laugh, some went off on a tangent, and some people proved that Maths is not for them.

Me, I will just keep on ploughing a sad furrow, the ultimate humiliation is sharing this sad thought with everyone, on my excel spreadsheet teams turn a different colour when they can't catch Stanley.

Counting them out one by one, only when it was mathematically certain, was a way of not sayin what we're all thinking, but are too nice to say.

(Shakermaker, alright then, it's been a long day)
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If (when) we beat Burton; Crawley, Canvey and Altrincham are added to list.

Sorry I'm breaking my own rules now. This was meant to be a slow exposition of teams that can't beat us. San Fairy Anne.
 
Oggy said:
If (when) we beat Burton; Crawley, Canvey and Altrincham are added to list.

Sorry I'm breaking my own rules now. This was meant to be a slow exposition of teams that can't beat us. San Fairy Anne.
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yeah so behave ;) I'm keeping to your mighty rules!!! :p
 
Oggy said:
Sorry, the clue was in the BLACKBURN all the time, my mistake.
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TONIGHTs LET....

straight from the horses mouth....a direct QUOTE from ' jimmy bell'

"two down,perhaps.....maybe.....ONLY ANOTHER FIVE TO GO ....."

so you can stick your mathematical jargon straight up where the sun dont shine :moon:
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Tonights Accy observer has coleman saying 6 more wins should do it and my coley beats your bell any day :) :)
 
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