RE: [MLUG - DISCUSSION] those of you waiting for a Fry's or BestBuy in Columbia...

[Mike Miller <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

On Mon, 7 Oct 2002, Jonathan King wrote:

> In California, I think the story is either a lot of serious geeks (e.g.,
> all those stores in the bay area)  or something around 3 million
> normally geeky people (e.g., LA stores, the San Diego store).


Here's my geeky view:  Let N equal the number of people living in the
catchment area for the store.  Let p equal the probability that any one of
those people, selected at random, is a geek.  Let n equal the number of
geeks in the catchment area.  Then,

          n = p * N

So, they will build a Fry's when n is sufficiently large.  This could
happen because p, the proportion of geeks, is large (as in Silicon Valley)
or it could be because N is large (as in L.A.), or both.

Your geek,

Mike

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