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Re:Tech’s defiance of economic gravity came to an abrupt end by FormerBandmate on Tuesday December 27, 2022 @02:55AM (#34146337)
By population it’s Colombia, by land it’s Peru
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Re:Tech’s defiance of economic gravity came to an abrupt end by CoreyFieldens on Tuesday December 27, 2022 @03:18AM (#34146507)
From google, the total area of South American countries:

1. Brazil: 3,287,957 sq miles

2. Argentina: 1,073,518 sq miles

3. Peru: 496,225 sq miles

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Re:Tech’s defiance of economic gravity came to an abrupt end by alar44 on Tuesday December 27, 2022 @10:46AM (#34149605)
Lol. The irony is delicious. Largest is size, populous is population.

"On two occasions I have been asked, 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." "

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Re:Tech’s defiance of economic gravity came to an abrupt end by arbitrary_name on Tuesday December 27, 2022 @11:52AM (#34150452)
How did you manage to get this wrong?
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