Dear Gerard, you are wrong. 'he' in this context has as much information as 'someone' and 'person'. It does not refer to the sex of the person spoken about.
Best regards, Tim On Wednesday, March 11, 2020 4:44:47 PM CET Gerard DVD Kleywegt wrote: > >>> Sorry to have taken this matter up in such a visible manner: I > >>> noticed > >>> > >>> this very wrong formula in someone's paper, and that person then told me > >>> where he had found it. Having landed on that page, I didn't know where > >>> to go > For the students: > > "someone" = systematic absence of information = 0 bits > "person" = systematic absence of information = 0 bits > "he" = 1 bit of information! > > --The other Gerard (1 bit of information!) > > ****************************************************************** > Gerard J. Kleywegt > > http://xray.bmc.uu.se/gerard mailto:ger...@xray.bmc.uu.se > ****************************************************************** > The opinions in this message are fictional. Any similarity > to actual opinions, living or dead, is purely coincidental. > ****************************************************************** > Little known gastromathematical curiosity: let "z" be the > radius and "a" the thickness of a pizza. Then the volume > of that pizza is equal to pi*z*z*a ! > ****************************************************************** > > ######################################################################## > > To unsubscribe from the CCP4BB list, click the following link: > https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?SUBED1=CCP4BB&A=1 -- -- Tim Gruene Head of the Centre for X-ray Structure Analysis Faculty of Chemistry University of Vienna Phone: +43-1-4277-70202 GPG Key ID = A46BEE1A ######################################################################## To unsubscribe from the CCP4BB list, click the following link: https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?SUBED1=CCP4BB&A=1
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