At 15:00 3-9-01 -0500, Ronn Blankenship wrote:
>> > either died in office or been shot while in office (Reagan being the
>> > only one that did not die.)
>>
>>Hm. Interesting. How were the deaths of the various presidents distributed
>>over the years ending in 0, 1, 2, 3 and 4?
>AFAIK, _every_ president of the US ever elected in years ending in the
>digits 1, 2, or 3 is still alive! Amazing, isn't it?
>
>(The US holds Presidential elections in years evenly divisible by 4.)
>
>I suspect what you meant was what has happened to Presidents elected in
>years ending in 2, 4, 6, or 8 (those years divisible by 4 and not also by
>5), and I don't know the answer off the top of my head.
That is not what I meant. What I meant was: of all those presidents elected
in a year ending with 0, how many died in a year ending with 1 (i.e. 1901),
how many in a year ending with 2 (i.e. 1902), etcetera.
Jeroen
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