At http://www.chessbase.com/newsdetail.asp?newsid=1614 there is a list of
people who achieved the grandmaster title at very young ages.

It struck me that the ages are reported in the form, "X years, Y months,
and Z days." Strictly speaking this isn't the "right" way to rank people
by age, since not all years have the same number of days and not all months
have the same number of days. If we count age by number of days (ignoring
fractions of a day), do Polgar and Humpy still come out tied?
--
Tim Chow tchow-at-alum-dot-mit-dot-edu
The range of our projectiles---even ... the artillery---however great, will
never exceed four of those miles of which as many thousand separate us from
the center of the earth. ---Galileo, Dialogues Concerning Two New Sciences

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At http://www.chessbase.com/newsdetail.asp?newsid=1614 there is a list of
people who achieved the grandmaster title at very young ages.

It struck me that the ages are reported in the form, "X years, Y months,
and Z days." Strictly speaking this isn't the "right" way to rank people
by age, since not all years have the same number of days and not all
months
have the same number of days. If we count age by number of days (ignoring
fractions of a day), do Polgar and Humpy still come out tied?

Yeah, exactly the same...

"Alan OBrien" wrote in message .uk...
wrote in message
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At http://www.chessbase.com/newsdetail.asp?newsid=1614 there is a list of
people who achieved the grandmaster title at very young ages.

It struck me that the ages are reported in the form, "X years, Y months,
and Z days." Strictly speaking this isn't the "right" way to rank people
by age, since not all years have the same number of days and not all
months
have the same number of days. If we count age by number of days (ignoring
fractions of a day), do Polgar and Humpy still come out tied?

Yeah, exactly the same...

I doubt it.

Wlod

PS. Hi Tim :-)

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At http://www.chessbase.com/newsdetail.asp?newsid=1614 there is a list of
people who achieved the grandmaster title at very young ages.

It struck me that the ages are reported in the form, "X years, Y months,
and Z days." Strictly speaking this isn't the "right" way to rank people
by age, since not all years have the same number of days and not all months
have the same number of days. If we count age by number of days (ignoring
fractions of a day), do Polgar and Humpy still come out tied?

Indeed, 14y 1m 12d can be
younger than 14y 1m 10d.

(I am just supporting you.
My comment is for the sake
of other rgc participants).

Regards,

Wlod

Epoch time?

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At http://www.chessbase.com/newsdetail.asp?newsid=1614 there is a list of
people who achieved the grandmaster title at very young ages.

It struck me that the ages are reported in the form, "X years, Y months,
and Z days." Strictly speaking this isn't the "right" way to rank people
by age, since not all years have the same number of days and not all
months
have the same number of days. If we count age by number of days (ignoring
fractions of a day), do Polgar and Humpy still come out tied?
--
Tim Chow tchow-at-alum-dot-mit-dot-edu
The range of our projectiles---even ... the artillery---however great,
will
never exceed four of those miles of which as many thousand separate us
from
the center of the earth. ---Galileo, Dialogues Concerning Two New
Sciences