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Subject: Thought Experiment
From: Dan Allen (danallen46@XXX.XXX)
Date: Wed Jun 12 2002 - 01:33:52 EDT
I propose a thought experiment with a couple of "back of the envelope"
estimation questions:
1) How many sextant users are there in the world?
2) What percentage of the world's population that are
interested in sextants are on this mailing list?
I of course do not know the answers to these questions, but I think
we can make some reasonable assumptions to be able to come up with
ballpark figures.
If you decide to give this informal competition a try, please try and
give us some of your reasoning behind your estimates, because that is
the real interesting part of such a question!
Dan Allen
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