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Re:Why are Pakistan’s floods so extreme this year? by onlyrealcuzzo on Friday September 02, 2022 @03:59PM (#32695119)
This sounds extreme, but it's not as extreme as everyone seems to think.

200M is closer to 37M (+163M) than 370M (-170M).

OP is saying a 10% decrease is more likely than the population staying even.

I disagree - but not as wildly as I would if OP was saying that the population is likely to actually be close to 37M.

200M is quite far from 37M... It's just that 370M is even farther...

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Re:Why are Pakistan’s floods so extreme this year? by oefnak on Friday September 02, 2022 @05:47PM (#32696083)
I find it more logical think of orders of magnitude, so to compare numbers by dividing them; with 100 sitting between 10 and 1000. Then 200 is a lot closer to 370 than to 37.
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