Re: Stats Gone Wild! Plus Triple-Play Bonus

On Thu, 15 May 2008 11:21:39 -0700, Bob Ward <bobward@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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wrote:

>On 15 May 2008 00:29:01 -0500, M C Hamster
><davolson@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>>Since we're talking random simulations of baseball seasons, here's an
>>old column that I posted here, that statistically quantified the
>>amazing futility of the Cubs (and White Sox).  It is now outdated,
>>since the White Sox won in 2005.  But the Cubs odds still basically
>>hold, and in fact are even greater now, 5 years hence.
>>
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>Shouldn't that read "five years later"?  To me, five years hence means
>five years from now, in the future.*See #2
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>Definition of Hence
>Pronunciation: hens 
>adv. 1. From this place; away.
>Arise, let us go hence.
>- John xiv. 31.
>I will send thee far hence unto the Gentiles.
>- Acts xxii. 21. 
> 2. From this time; in the future; as, a week hence. 
> 3. From this reason; therefore; - as an inference or deduction.
>Hence, perhaps, it is, that Solomon calls the fear of the Lord the
>beginning of wisdom.
>- Tillotson. 
> 4. From this source or origin.
>All other faces borrowed hence
>Their light and grace.
>- Suckling.
>Whence come wars and fightings among you? Come they not hence, even of
>your lusts?
>- James. iv. 1.
>An ancient author prophesied from hence.
>- Dryden.
>Expelled from hence into a world
>Of woe and sorrow.
>- Milton. 
>v. t. 1. To send away. 

Um, sure.  But it's five years hence from when the article was first
written, so hence makes sense too.

-- 
M C Hamster  "Big Wheel Keep on Turning" -- Creedence Clearwater Revival