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- Montana
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Count me in! I already support NPR; NPCF (National Public Chiff and Fipple) is much more focused on my needs as a whistle maven.
If names are not included in the newsletter or somewhere (which is fine with me if they're not), I still think you need to indicate a count during your pledge month. Sometimes people will tend to let pledging slide if they think enough people are covering for them. In which case, you may only get 20% (if that) of the members pledging (there's some statistic that says only 20% of the members of any organization tend to do 99% of the work of that organization; I think that percentage is decreasing each generation). However if there's an update midmonth saying "Only 11 members have become patrons", then people become concerned and become active.
If names are not included in the newsletter or somewhere (which is fine with me if they're not), I still think you need to indicate a count during your pledge month. Sometimes people will tend to let pledging slide if they think enough people are covering for them. In which case, you may only get 20% (if that) of the members pledging (there's some statistic that says only 20% of the members of any organization tend to do 99% of the work of that organization; I think that percentage is decreasing each generation). However if there's an update midmonth saying "Only 11 members have become patrons", then people become concerned and become active.
- FJohnSharp
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- Tell us something.: I used to be a regular then I took up the bassoon. Bassoons don't have a lot of chiff. Not really, I have always been a drummer, and my C&F years were when I was a little tired of the drums. Now I'm back playing drums. I mist the C&F years, though.
- Location: Kent, Ohio
[quote="StevenA dollar to start the post, two bucks for the first reply, three for the second reply, etc. That'll help keep 'em short!
Steven[/quote]
The Cutie Pie thread would be up to $1,241,100 for the next to post.
Steven[/quote]
The Cutie Pie thread would be up to $1,241,100 for the next to post.
"Meon an phobail a thogail trid an chultur"
(The people’s spirit is raised through culture)
Suburban Symphony
(The people’s spirit is raised through culture)
Suburban Symphony
- Steven
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The Cutie Pie thread would be up to $1,241,100 for the next to post.[/quote]FJohnSharp wrote:[quote="StevenA dollar to start the post, two bucks for the first reply, three for the second reply, etc. That'll help keep 'em short!
Steven
OK, it's really scary that you calculated that. Even scarier that it took you over a week to do it! Y'know, you coulda used a calculator or something....
Steven
- Chuck_Clark
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- FJohnSharp
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- Tell us something.: I used to be a regular then I took up the bassoon. Bassoons don't have a lot of chiff. Not really, I have always been a drummer, and my C&F years were when I was a little tired of the drums. Now I'm back playing drums. I mist the C&F years, though.
- Location: Kent, Ohio
It turns out I missed the whole damn thread the first time around. I used an Excel worksheet to do the calc. It was easy. Plus I was avoiding doing work.Steven wrote: OK, it's really scary that you calculated that. Even scarier that it took you over a week to do it! Y'know, you coulda used a calculator or something....
Steven
"Meon an phobail a thogail trid an chultur"
(The people’s spirit is raised through culture)
Suburban Symphony
(The people’s spirit is raised through culture)
Suburban Symphony
- TomB
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- Location: East Hartford, CT
OK, it's really scary that you calculated that. Even scarier that it took you over a week to do it! Y'know, you coulda used a calculator or something....Steven wrote:The Cutie Pie thread would be up to $1,241,100 for the next to post.FJohnSharp wrote:[quote="StevenA dollar to start the post, two bucks for the first reply, three for the second reply, etc. That'll help keep 'em short!
Steven
Steven[/quote]
OK, all you math wizards, never mind the calculator, (too easy for fingers to slip), there has got to be some forumla for easily figuring that out, no? I realize it's already been totaled, but being the math phobic that I am, I'm interested in learning a better way to do this type of things.
All the Best, Tom
"Consult the Book of Armaments"
- dbcollies
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Unless I'm missing something obvious, isn't it just "number_of_current_messages" + 1?TomB wrote:OK, all you math wizards, never mind the calculator, (too easy for fingers to slip), there has got to be some forumla for easily figuring that out, no? I realize it's already been totaled, but being the math phobic that I am, I'm interested in learning a better way to do this type of things.Steven wrote:FJohnSharp wrote:
All the Best, Tom
Unless you meant the total income to the board, rather than the cost of each message? In which case it would be:
(number_of_posts + 1) x ( number of posts / 2)
So 4 posts would be (4+1) x (4/2) = 5 x 2 = 10 = 1+2+3+4
7 posts would be (7+1) x (7/2) = 8 x 3.5 = 28 = 1+2+3+4+5+6+7
(Talk about being a geek! I only know this because of a (probably apocryphal) story about a mathemetician [Gauss, I think]. The story goes that, as a child, his teacher couldn't keep him occupied. So he was told to add up the numbers from 1 to 100, just to keep him buzy. He came up with the answer in seconds, because he realized that any series like this can be caculated by adding the first and last numbers, and then multiplying by 1/2 of the number of numbers in the series. So 1+2+...+100 is the same as 101 x 50. It's because when you add the end two numbers, you get 101. Take the next two numbers from the end, and you ALSO get 101, etc, etc, etc. There are 50 such pairs.)
This concudes your number theory lesson for the day. We now return you to your regularly scheduled forum, already in progress.
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