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- From: a.norrish@trl.oz.au (Reg Trademark)
- Subject: Re: Shamen crash through the price barrier (almost)
- Message-ID: <a.norrish.18.0@trl.oz.au>
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- Organization: Telecom Research Laboratories
- References: <a.norrish.16.0@trl.oz.au>
- Distribution: aus
- Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1992 05:29:49 GMT
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- In article <a.norrish.16.0@trl.oz.au> a.norrish@trl.oz.au (Reg Trademark) writes:
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- >Scuglia rating = 8 songs / 8 dollars = 1 dollar per song.
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- >Curtis factor = 40 minutes / 8 dollars = 50 cents per song.
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- Horrors. The Curtis factor should be 50 cents per minute.
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- >Therefore, we can see that the Scuglia/Curtis ratio is *exactly* 2:1. This
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- Recalculating:
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- Scuglia / Curtis ratio =
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- $1 per song / 50 cents per minute =
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- 100 cents 50 cents
- _________ / ________ =
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- 1 song 1 minute
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- 100 cents 1 minute
- _________ * ________ =
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- 1 song 50 cents
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- Cancelling out the cents component, the equation becomes,
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- 100 minutes
- ___________
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- 50 songs
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- or 2 minutes per song.
- ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- So someone's lying. 8 tracks in 40 minutes doesn't add up. I think the
- Shamen have been revealed for what they really are. SHAMEN. CHARLATANS.
- STONE ROSES. oops.
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- Andrew (not known for mathematical excellence) Norrish.
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