Mike,
I would compare this more to the political campaign season.  HP is the
incumbent and OPENMPE is the distant challenger.  The challenger demands a
debate and the incumbent knows it would be bad form and lose votes to
simply say "NO"!  So instead, the incumbent sends their people to talk
about a debate, but probably without any real intention of accepting the
debate terms, talks will continue until the election day.....
Thanks,
Jeff
At 09:37 AM 6/7/2004 -0400, Mike Hornsby wrote:
>Halftime at the OPENMPE Bowl:
>
> From EQUATER:
>Enter initial date (month day year): 11/14/2001
>Enter final date (month day year): 12/31/2006
>Difference in days = 1873
>1873/2 = 936.5
>Enter initial date (month day year): 11/14/2001
>Enter final date (month day year): 936.5
>
>Date 936.5 days forward = June 7, 2004
>
>Anyone know what the score is?

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