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- From: markp@joplin.wri.com (Mark Pundurs)
- Subject: Re: numbers
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- References: <1993Jan27.151634.19036@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU>
- Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1993 19:00:08 GMT
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- In <1993Jan27.151634.19036@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU> gjh@galen.med.Virginia.EDU (Galen J. Hekhuis) writes:
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- >It seems like the numbers keep creeping up. 1.3 million, 1.4 million,
- >1.5 million, 1.6 million.
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- For a number of years, the figure was 1.6 million. According to a t.a
- pro-choicer (I forget who), the number has more recently been 1.4 million.
- (This same pro-choicer, BTW, flamed the 1.6 million figure as not just
- outdated, but a "lie".)
-
- >It looks like about .1 million a semester.
- >Soon, some bright cookie will look at the numbers, and just simply
- >round off to the closest million, and say 2 million. Then some clown
- >like me will probably round off to the nearest billion, and say
- >zero. No problem. It's all in the way you look at it...
-
-
- >--
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- > Galen Hekhuis UVa Health Sci Ctr (804)982-1646 gjh@virginia.edu
- > Illiterate? Write for FREE help...
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