This would seem to call for some arcane branch of math or statistics that factors in will or agency, not simple linear probability.
Vampires, for example, would have a different progression from zombies, because vampires can (according to most forms of the legend) choose when to make someone into a vampire.
Zombies do not and cannot choose. Well, I suppose if they eat all your brains, you will not then rise from the dead. A partial brainectomy, or a more grazing wound, however, is inevitably productive of a new zombie menace.
Anyhow, unless you're armed with an unusually substantial compass and slide rule, math is not your best defense against the undead.
Rin
Joy McCann <joy.mccann_at_...> wrote:
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> http://science.slashdot.org/story/09/08/15/0019258/A-Mathematical-Model-For-a-Spreading-Zombie-Infestation
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> --Joy
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Received on 2009-08-15 20:24:28