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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 20:48:48 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Dave Schuler wrote:
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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%.
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Oh!
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Am I wrong? I admit that it’s entirely possible!
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No that was my mistake. Narf. :-)
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Dave!
(semi-math-illiterate, to my shame)
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-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 by a teacher who wrote that: “Spilling is not
as important as math.” Spell checker is our freind. :-)
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