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  1. Newsgroups: talk.abortion
  2. Path: sparky!uunet!charon.amdahl.com!amdahl!rtech!decwrl!ames!saimiri.primate.wisc.edu!sdd.hp.com!ux1.cso.uiuc.edu!csrd.uiuc.edu!sp94.csrd.uiuc.edu!skinner
  3. From: skinner@sp94.csrd.uiuc.edu (Gregg Skinner)
  4. Subject: Re: numbers
  5. Message-ID: <1993Jan27.195319.11839@csrd.uiuc.edu>
  6. Sender: news@csrd.uiuc.edu
  7. Reply-To: g-skinner@uiuc.edu
  8. Organization: UIUC Center for Supercomputing Research and Development
  9. References: <1993Jan27.151634.19036@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU>
  10. Date: Wed, 27 Jan 93 19:53:19 GMT
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  12.  
  13. >It seems like the numbers keep creeping up.  1.3 million, 1.4 million,
  14. >1.5 million, 1.6 million.  It looks like about .1 million a semester.
  15. >Soon, some bright cookie will look at the numbers, and just simply
  16. >round off to the closest million, and say 2 million.  Then some clown
  17. >like me will probably round off to the nearest billion, and say 
  18. >zero.  No problem.  It's all in the way you look at it...
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  20. Is there some point being made here?
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