mathematician wrote:

On Apr 9, 5:21 pm, H. Wabnig .... .-- .- -... -. .. --. @ .-
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In 1988, radiocarbon laboratories at Arizona, Cambridge, and Zurich
determined the age of a sample from
the Shroud of Turin.

They reported that the date of the cloth's production lay between A.D.
1260 and 1390 with 95%
confidence.
..............

so it is 600 years old, isn't that old enough for a museum piece?
did anyone really expect more?


If they measured the age of some of the patches of the Shroud of Turin
then the right conlusion would be that the date of patching of the Shroud
of Turin would lay between A.D. 1260 and 1390 with 95% confidence ?

Wouldn't the warranted conclusion be that the material of the patches
was grown between those periods, irrespective of when it was patched

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