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| A "million" Muslims |
Orders of magnitude refer to
the number of zeroes that follow a rounded number … thus one order of magnitude
would be Nx10, two orders of magnitude translates to Nx100, three orders =
Nx1000, etc. The Million Muslim March is taking place today, the twelfth anniversary of 9/11/2001 ... a clearly idiotically–chosen
date. It is in Washington , DC
A million is 1,000,000 … or six orders of magnitude. But the actual turnout here was less than 100 Muslims and Muslim fellow travelers. This then is actually only two orders of magnitude … or four orders of magnitude less than advertised. Even the organizers of this protest only took out a license for a rally of 1,000 people … three orders of magnitude ... or a thousand times short of the “million” that they had placed in the title of this event.
A million is 1,000,000 … or six orders of magnitude. But the actual turnout here was less than 100 Muslims and Muslim fellow travelers. This then is actually only two orders of magnitude … or four orders of magnitude less than advertised. Even the organizers of this protest only took out a license for a rally of 1,000 people … three orders of magnitude ... or a thousand times short of the “million” that they had placed in the title of this event.
I can only think that these mathematical order-of-magnitude discrepancies must represent a product of our currently
dumbed-down educational system.
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