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Re:Beyond the 10,000 Hour Rule: Richard Hamming and the Mess... by nostrademons on Tuesday August 10, 2010 @03:05AM (#1590720)
You would be wrong then:

http://www.ornl.gov/sci/techresources/Human_Genome/project/i...

I'm also wrong about the chimpanzees - recent research suggests that they share only 95% of genes with humans, not 98% - but at least I'm not off by a few orders of magnitude.

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Re:Beyond the 10,000 Hour Rule: Richard Hamming and the Mess... by fmora on Tuesday August 10, 2010 @03:16AM (#1590740)
Read it, it doesn't state up to how many significant digits that percent is accurate so it doesn't prove I'm wrong. They may have just shorten it for brevity.
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Re:Beyond the 10,000 Hour Rule: Richard Hamming and the Mess... by nostrademons on Tuesday August 10, 2010 @03:59AM (#1590811)
The convention in science is that you display as many digits as your measurement is significant to. If it were significant to two digits, it would've been 99%; if it were significant to four digits, it would've been 99.90%.

In any case, that number's backed up by several sources:

http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/story?id=99478&page=1

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2002/09/0924_020924_...

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