At 10:26 1/18/99 +0000, Colin wrote:
That should have read 7 point 5 %! 'Upto 80B' (hence 'or more') was the
number I had read. Of course 8B is too small a number! I will endeavour
to check more closely my typing...
Colin Axon
This note appeared to be in correction of this:
"Ok Thomas. If you will change 1945 to 1900, I will go along with you.
This is not actually as earth-shattering as it all seems. Given that
more than 75% of all humans who have ever walked on the earth in its
entire existence, are currently alive, so lo and behold, most of the
science has done in a current life span. This is no great revelation."
This note was possibly garbled in transmission.
Does 'up to 80B' mean that...
The total human world-wide cumulative population count is estimated
at 80 billions (8E10)?
Does 'That should have read 7 point 5%!' mean that...
The total human world-wide population currently alive is estimated
at 6 billions (6E9), representing that 7.5% of all humans who ever
lived are now alive?
If I am reading Colin's note as he intended, I would indeed be
interested to learn over what period can 50% of all scientists be said
to have lived?
In addition, I should mention that I took advantage of a personal
library of translated authors of antiquity to pull some quotations out
of the hat in a previous post.
(This process is sometimes called 'showboating')
All the same, recalling the nominal topic of this most diverting
thread from the title, I should stress the great importance of access
to original texts in translation. Is ANYONE else on this list capable
of quoting Hippocrates, Galen, Plato, Nicomachus, Copernicus, Spinoza,
Pascal, Huygen etc. right here, right now, in full?
I feel truly blessed in this respect.
Brian
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Altus OK
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