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by Haskell 6393 days ago
And why do you think 10% is impossible but 9.5% is not?
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I said they may have found a bound. I didn't say it was; it said there may be a limit. Re-read the ancestor.
You are playing with words.

The point is that there's really not much difference between 10% and 9.56%.

Netflix's Grand Prize could very well had been 9.64% and it would already had been won, despite everybody saying one year ago that 9.64% might be impossible given the dataset.

We will talk again in one year to see if 10% may be impossible.

Barring either of us getting hit by a beer truck or moving on to a new site,or the apocalypse you're on. Catch you 12/11/09!
Ops... substitute 9.64% by 9.56% in that comment. :)