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- From: reid@pa.dec.com (Brian Reid)
- Newsgroups: alt.magic
- Subject: Re: arithmetic (was: To reveal or not to reveal...)
- Message-ID: <1992Nov19.202123.3900@PA.dec.com>
- Date: 19 Nov 92 20:21:23 GMT
- References: <17NOV199210342423@lims02.lerc.nasa.gov> <BARNETT.92Nov17155325@grymoire.crd.ge.com> <1ebonjINNorq@agate.berkeley.edu>
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- Organization: DEC Network Systems Laboratory
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- In article <1ebonjINNorq@agate.berkeley.edu> bh@anarres.CS.Berkeley.EDU (Brian Harvey) writes:
- >barnett@crdgw1.ge.com writes:
- >>> 13,000 People???
- >>
- >> They estimate 190,000 USENET readers, and that
- >>0.8% of the people read alt.magic.
- >
- >Hmm. At least one of these numbers has to be wrong. 1% of 190,000 is 1900,
- >so 0.8% can't be 13,000.
- >
- >Maybe you mean 1300? That sounds more plausible.
-
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- 13,000 is 0.8% of 1 700 000, which is the estimated number of people
- worldwide who have access to the net. 0.8% is the fraction of people in the
- sampled population who read alt.magic (391 out of 48160).
-