Very old, very sophisticated tools found in India

Re:Very old, very sophisticated tools found in India by gcb0 on Friday February 02, 2018 @11:29AM (#16291782)

"spans 385,000 to 172,000 years ago (plus or minus about 50,000 years on either end)"

do journalists now get paid by word?

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Re:Very old, very sophisticated tools found in India by Steuard on Friday February 02, 2018 @11:51AM (#16292000)

This sounds like a perfectly natural description of the estimated date range to me. Is there some significantly more efficient way of phrasing it that I'm overlooking? (Without resorting to scientific ± notation, at least?)

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Re:Very old, very sophisticated tools found in India by gkilmain on Friday February 02, 2018 @01:28PM (#16292872)

I'd be okay if we removed 'on either end'.

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Re:Very old, very sophisticated tools found in India by mrkuchbhi on Friday February 02, 2018 @01:57PM (#16293187)

are you implying they should have said "spans 435,000 to 122,000 years ago" ?

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Re:Very old, very sophisticated tools found in India by gcb0 on Friday February 02, 2018 @06:45PM (#16295154)

why not? if that is exactly what they are saying.

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