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In article <998@kaos.MATH.UCLA.EDU> barry@pico.math.ucla.edu (Barry Merriman) writes:

   of 52 articles in comp.sys.sun, 1 came from Sun. Thus
   the Sun:noise ratio is 1% (with a standard deviation around 10% though,
   for this sample).

How do you get 1% from 1 out of 52?
How did you define your error so that you could
calculate your std dev?