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If the goal had been 5%, you would say: - It may be simply mathematically impossible to get to 5 percent...

And they are already at 9.56%.

No I wouldn't have, because I could only make a statement like that after seeing performance information. Since at least 40 teams beat that performance the first year, I would have said they set the bar too low.

And why do you think 10% is impossible but 9.5% is not?

I said they may have found a bound. I didn't say it was; it said there may be a limit. Re-read the ancestor.

You are playing with words.

The point is that there's really not much difference between 10% and 9.56%.

Netflix's Grand Prize could very well had been 9.64% and it would already had been won, despite everybody saying one year ago that 9.64% might be impossible given the dataset.

We will talk again in one year to see if 10% may be impossible.

Ops... substitute 9.64% by 9.56% in that comment. :)

Barring either of us getting hit by a beer truck or moving on to a new site,or the apocalypse you're on. Catch you 12/11/09!

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