Re: A86: Questions on Port 3, calc on, off, APD, etc


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Re: A86: Questions on Port 3, calc on, off, APD, etc




ahh....  but (a) florida is a big state and (b) i'd guess that 75% or motre of
this list is in the us...  :-)

Matt2000 wrote:

> >actually if you're on a list with only 30 people, i'd venture to say that
> it's
> >very likely that there are two people on it that live within a half-hour of
> each
> >other, and even more likely within an hour.  (that's assuming that the
> >population is equally dense which it's not, but add some more people and it
> >accounts for that, and this list probably has 100 or so at least)
>
> With over 4 billion people on the earth?? Even in the US with 50 states,
> suppose there are two people
> per state right? That is assuming (incorrectly) that everyone here lives in
> the US. Now 2 people per state,
> hell in Florida it takes over 3.5 hours just to leave the state. You got to
> know that! Now living 30 minutes away meaning
> that me being 1, the other person would have to be in a 30 minute region of
> over 7 hours of driving from the PanHandle to Bahamas, finish of Florida,
> giving 30 min / 7 hours or 1/14 chance. Now if we assume that only maybe a
> 1/4 of the people in the world live in the US (probably much much less) then
> that makes the chance 1/48. Of course we also have to take account terrain
> capibilities, the U.S. has roads but not every country has roads, some
> states may have hills (not Florida!), so we would have calculate the length
> of the arc because the car has to drive OVER the hill and that involves
> trigonometry.. and you may be considering 1/2 hour where "as the crow flies"
> however roads and paths many not have such direct routes, so you cannot
> use Pythagorean's theorm there..so dont even get me started!!
>
> Just joking ;)
>
> Later,
>     Matt



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