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Re:A cave in Romania that was sealed for 5.5M years by octagonal on Thursday May 12, 2016 @11:33AM (#11684139)
33 people: 0.00000045810% of the earth's population

100 people: 0.00000134736% of the earth's population

Seems fairly comparable to me.

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Re:A cave in Romania that was sealed for 5.5M years by notJim on Thursday May 12, 2016 @03:58PM (#11686285)
Yes, because when humans think of groups of people, we usually think in terms of percentage of Earth's population.

"How many people are coming over for dinner tonight?"

"Oh, not too many, just about 2.8070175e-10%"

"Ahh, so one chicken will do"

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