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RE: Space Shuttle Costs
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lugnet.robotics
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Date:
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Tue, 15 Dec 1998 22:28:33 GMT
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Tim McSweeney <tim@ams.SPAMCAKEco.nz>
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> Populations, in thousands:
> UK 58,649
> Australia 18,520
> New Zealand 3,796
> Canada 30,563
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> 111,528
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> US 274,028
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> 274,028
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> (Figures from "http://www.popin.org/pop1998/".)
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> -Unless I missed 160 million speakers of British English, I don't
> think I need to comment further with regards to population.
> With regards
Hang on The population of the world is ~ 4 Billion (uh,oh there's another
argument looming), No matter how you define billion your figures fall way
short, Sure not all (most) of the world is english speaking (but we have
already had anecdotal evidence that the "british billion" is used in spain
and france. So we can assume it's used in a lot more places as well. Where
else is the american version used?
Tim
(getting more and more offtopic by the minute)
Hands up anyone who has a billion lego pieces
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| (...) Populations, in thousands: UK 58,649 Australia 18,520 New Zealand 3,796 Canada 30,563 ------- 111,528 US 274,028 ------- 274,028 (Figures from "(URL) -Unless I missed 160 million speakers of British English, I don't think I need to comment (...) (26 years ago, 15-Dec-98, to lugnet.robotics)
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