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Re: Debian 10th birthday gear



On Wed, Jul 09, 2003 at 11:44:12AM -0500, Nathan E Norman wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 08, 2003 at 09:44:06PM -0400, James Michael Greenhalgh
> wrote:
> 
> > Is it me or has the debate over whether there are more installations
> > or users resulted in your post/point being lost.  1000000 million
> > users = 1000000000000 users - it should just be 1000000 users?
> 
> Since there are roughly 3000000000 people on the planet, 1000000000000
> users must mean debian is the first interplanetary operating system.

I seem to recall the world population as being in excess of 6 billion
(6000000000) some time ago.  Unless there was some mass death of ~ 3
billion people since then, I would think it was still significantly
above the 3 billion you reference.  Either way it is certainly below 1
trillion.

-- 
Jamin W. Collins

To be nobody but yourself when the whole world is trying it's best night
and day to make you everybody else is to fight the hardest battle any
human being will fight. -- E.E. Cummings



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