Re:Calculating a record-breaking 31.4T digits of Pi with GCP
by klohto on Thursday March 14, 2019 @07:55AM
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But that is population not a number of countries. If you look at it from a country perspective, the percentage is tiny.
Re:Calculating a record-breaking 31.4T digits of Pi with GCP
by StreakyCobra on Thursday March 14, 2019 @08:22AM
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Probably. The statement talk about "parts of the world", and this concept of "parts" can be seen as countries, continents, surface of earth, atoms, etc. I chose to reduce it to the smallest meaningful entity concerning the concept of dates: humans. It is arbitrary, but justifiable :)
Re:Calculating a record-breaking 31.4T digits of Pi with GCP
by FakeComments on Thursday March 14, 2019 @09:00AM
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You seem to imply it’s wrong to refer to 40% of the population as “many” — which seems odd.
Re:Calculating a record-breaking 31.4T digits of Pi with GCP
by vonmoltke on Thursday March 14, 2019 @02:05PM
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I treat "some" as an informal expression of relative quantity and "many" as an informal expression of absolute quantity. So it is valid to say many countries use "MD" and many countries use "DM", though most countries use "DM" and only some use "MD".
DM -> 3392/5550 ~= 61.1% MD -> 2158/5550 ~= 38.9%
Note: I ignored both green and red regions that have both "DM" and "MD" in their format.
So it is definitively not the majority of people. Using the word "some" instead would have been better, but "Many" is not totally wrong… I guess.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Date_format_by_country#Usage_m...