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Re: Sticking my gun where it doesn't belong...
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lugnet.off-topic.debate
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Thu, 18 Sep 2003 20:36:29 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Mike Petrucelli wrote:
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If I’m reading your statistics right, then I think the actual figure is
0.004 percent. I selected only homicide-related firearm deaths, yielding a
total of 10,801, which represents 0.0039 percent. If my calculation is
wrong, someone please correct me. Still, .0039% isn’t an overwhelming
percentage, I grant you.
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Well using the stats from here:
http://news.lugnet.com/off-topic/debate/?n=22117
11,071 divided by 275,264,999 equals 4.0219425E-5 or 0.000040219425
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Okay, but help out a poor English major. I thought that 0.00004 is 0.004%,
rather than .00004 percent, just as 0.86 is 86%. Am I wrong? I admit that it’s
entirely possible!
Dave!
(semi-math-illiterate, to my shame)
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Message has 2 Replies:
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| (...) Oh! (...) No that was my mistake. Narf. :-) (...) -Mike Petrucelli (semi-spilling-illiterate, not really ashamed of it though.) P.S. 'Spelling' spelled 'spilling' is from a letter read in my 8th grade English class from the early 1800s written (...) (21 years ago, 18-Sep-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
| | | Re: Sticking my gun where it doesn't belong...
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| (...) Dave! I think you meant to say you were semi-innumerate! Or heck, that would be the same as saying you were semi-numerate, wouldn't it? Not that I am convinced either is actually so. Maggie C. (who has been exposed to some real innumerates in (...) (21 years ago, 19-Sep-03, to lugnet.off-topic.fun, FTX)
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| | Re: Sticking my gun where it doesn't belong...
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| (...) Well using the stats from here: (URL) 11,071 divided by 275,264,999 equals 4.0219425E-5 or 0.000040219425 (...) 1,100 divided by 275,264,999 equals 3.9961492E-6 or 0.0000039961492 And for the record, I trust that 0.000004 percent of the (...) (21 years ago, 18-Sep-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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