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  1. Path: sparky!uunet!stanford.edu!agate!ucbvax!SLEEPY.NETWORK.COM!logajan
  2. From: logajan@SLEEPY.NETWORK.COM (John Logajan)
  3. Newsgroups: sci.physics.fusion
  4. Subject: Trinary
  5. Message-ID: <9207291801.AA08539@sleepy.network.com>
  6. Date: 29 Jul 92 18:01:02 GMT
  7. Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU
  8. Lines: 12
  9.  
  10. Robert_W_Horst@cup.portal.com writes:
  11.  
  12. >change it from a binary experiment (source "In" or "Out"), to 
  13. >a trinary experiment ("In", "Out", or "Mid").
  14.  
  15. But suppose there is a "critical" level of incident radiation.
  16. "Mid" might be either over or under the critical level, and 
  17. therefore might look "In" or "Out."  Would this be useful
  18. information in a statistics experiment or would it cause
  19. further confusion?
  20.  
  21.  -- John Logajan
  22.