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  1. Path: sparky!uunet!think.com!yale.edu!spool.mu.edu!agate!anarres.CS.Berkeley.EDU!bh
  2. From: bh@anarres.CS.Berkeley.EDU (Brian Harvey)
  3. Newsgroups: alt.magic
  4. Subject: arithmetic (was: To reveal or not to reveal...)
  5. Date: 17 Nov 1992 21:37:55 GMT
  6. Organization: University of California, Berkeley
  7. Lines: 10
  8. Message-ID: <1ebonjINNorq@agate.berkeley.edu>
  9. References: <1992Nov17.035955.6127@r-node.gts.org> <17NOV199210342423@lims02.lerc.nasa.gov> <BARNETT.92Nov17155325@grymoire.crd.ge.com>
  10. NNTP-Posting-Host: anarres.cs.berkeley.edu
  11.  
  12. barnett@crdgw1.ge.com writes:
  13. >>   13,000 People???
  14. >
  15. > They estimate 190,000 USENET readers, and that
  16. >0.8% of the people read alt.magic.
  17.  
  18. Hmm.  At least one of these numbers has to be wrong.  1% of 190,000 is 1900,
  19. so 0.8% can't be 13,000.
  20.  
  21. Maybe you mean 1300?  That sounds more plausible.
  22.