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Re:2,000-year-old redwoods survive wildfire at California's ... by throwaway5752 on Tuesday August 25, 2020 @02:21PM (#24274327)
Look, you're right. I base off 250 (10k yrs ago) and looking at current 415 and carelessly using an order of magnitude type phrasing. It's not up 100.0%. It's between 50-100% and on the lower end.
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Re:2,000-year-old redwoods survive wildfire at California's ... by AnimalMuppet on Tuesday August 25, 2020 @02:49PM (#24274632)
Yeah, well, I've never been imprecise here on HN. Never rounded my data to an order of magnitude. Nope. Never. (I, ah, may have rounded toward zero a bit in this paragraph...)

Now I feel like "Captain Nitpick" for my previous comment.

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Re:2,000-year-old redwoods survive wildfire at California's ... by throwaway5752 on Tuesday August 25, 2020 @04:06PM (#24275518)
No, I had to acknowledge you are right, and good for you for holding me to the higher standard! Particularly on this topic.
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