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From: tim@dciem.UUCP (Tim Pointing)
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Subject: Re: Computer Census
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Date: Thu, 21-Aug-86 13:43:28 EDT
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Posted: Thu Aug 21 13:43:28 1986
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In article <183@uwmacc.UUCP> anderson@uwmacc.UUCP (Jess Anderson) writes:
> ...
>One was that the number of
>computers is greater than the number of people in the world,
>which I take to be 5 million million.

Obviously, we have a displaced Brit here. The 5 billion referred to
so frequently are Sagan (a.k.a. American) billion equal to a thousand million.

Even so, I still have trouble believing the above claim.
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