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Re:Could the UK Hold 10.6 Billion People? by rlpb on Monday October 10, 2011 @05:06AM (#3092965)
> The United Kingdom’s land area is 243,610,000m2.

No, it isn't. Wolfram Alpha reports that it is 249,430 km^2. To convert from km^2 to m^2, you multiply by 1000000, not 1000.

This throws all your calculations off by a factor of 1000.

Schoolboy error.

Re:Could the UK Hold 10.6 Billion People? by rlpb on Monday October 10, 2011 @06:14AM (#3093117)
TFA has now silently deleted my comment, corrected that one statement, but not corrected any other derived results. For example, the following statement is still wrong by a factor of 1000:

> If every person living in the UK had the same amount of space to live in we would have just under 3.9m2 each.