Whaddaya talkin bout? There were 5,451,476,142 struck. That would make the odds about 5,451,476,141 to 1. Chris
Thanks ladies, I really needed that laugh. Might have to drink a cold one and put the troubles of the day behind me.
Ed wood is the resident expert around here for potential future questions can PM him directly for help
Thanks silverdollar I will take a look at it. These are not my specialty but I have a lot of books from the ANA to help with Lincoln Cents. The fourm is coming around and starting to agree with me. I just helped DMPL_dingo correctly grade his Capped Bust half dollar as a details coin even thou the "professionals" at ANAC said it was a AU coin and several other agreed with me as calling the correct grade.
Come on now, big guy.... tell the truth for once. As ALWAYS, you're spinning in order to make yourself appear to be something most all of us know, without a doubt, you're not. You participated in a GTG thread and did not "help" the gentlemen "grade" his coin as claimed. First, you just happened to "grade" the coin, as always, only AFTER the assigned grade had been revealed, which is par for the course and is exactly why you're always "right". Then, even your mention of a problem came only after @heavycam.monstervam had already done so. So... now that you've had some time to come up with something, perhaps we could finally be blessed with this incredible, revolutionary, and surely hobby-altering new grading "algorithm" you claim to have "invented"?
Booksbfcoins You and I know both know that there are a lot of coin industry professionals on this forum and anything too detailed could be reverse engineered and I could loose lots of time that I have invested developing and testing. I definitely wont give out the rules but I could give out a few lines of syntax but no one would understand it anyway. I am very very busy with some marketing I am doing for a client but I will find time to explain the algorithm as simple as possible with out giving away too much info. I will probably just put up a link as it is too much to explain on a post
Oh, please! You can't even reasonably explain exactly what this supposedly "revolutionary" new idea/method is, and for weeks now have given every ridiculous excuse imaginable as to why you have not and/or can not do so. If you had no intention of actually sharing this nonexistent whatever, why openly claim that you were planning to do so? Of course this isn't a serious question, and you're right in that we both know something, which isn't the nonsense above, but the fact you're nothing remotely close to being what you selfishly and childishly pretend. I'm genuinely sorry to be so blunt, but your temerity is simply overwhelming, and mostly because you've had countless opportunities to prove yourself, yet instead of seizing them, you instead resort to the type of BS above where you try to spin reality into fitting your narrative. The fact is that short a thief, there's nothing lower on a coin forum than someone who willingly misleads others, and for no other purpose than to pretend to be something they're not. I know I shouldn't feed the trolls, but what you're doing is dangerous, particularly to those new to the hobby and come here for solid trustworthy advice. Doug can ban me if he sees fit, but as long as you insist on continuing with this charade, I will continue to call you on it. Respect begets respect, young sir...
There is no magic formula now, nor will there ever be for grading coins, it is just an opinion based on the state of preservation of the coin based on years of experience. How does one detect a counterfeit or cleaning with a formula?
Indeed, and how does one use a formula to gain such an incredible advantage when buying and selling raw, when the end result is the coin being judged by prevailing market standards? The most obvious way is tried and true lying, and to do that there's certainly no need for some magical computer program.
"...which this margin is too small to contain", eh? I've got a Ph.D. in computer science, thirty-odd years of experience programming, and a few years of image processing in the mix. Come at me, bro.