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- From: fburton@nyx.cs.du.edu (Francis Burton)
- Subject: Re: Horse color genetics - LONG
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- Organization: University of Denver, Dept. of Math & Comp. Sci.
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- Date: Fri, 22 Jan 93 18:49:56 GMT
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- A1.MHH@isumvs.iastate.edu (Mary Healey) writes:
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- >The totals are: grey 64 (50.0%)
- > bay 26 (20.3%)
- > chest 15 (11.7%)
- > black 11 ( 8.6%)
- > ch/bay 9 ( 7.0%)
- > brown 3 ( 2.3%)
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- This is exactly the kind of output I had in mind for a program - the
- inputs would be the colors of the sire and dam, probably selected from
- one or more menus to help the user distinguish between similar colors.
-
- >This is, of course, a worst-case/most possibilities scenario. But
- >you can begin to see why a computer program to calculate the
- >possibilities would be very difficult to write.
-
- I think it wouldn't be too difficult to write the program once
- the ground rules are established - which they are, only not in my
- own mind, yet!
-
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