[Foundation-l] A simple question on languages.

Wed Jan 23 19:02:28 UTC 2008

On 23/01/2008, Thomas Dalton <thomas.dalton at gmail.com> wrote:
> >  99.9999% is harder since groups of say 10K are going to have more of an impact.
>
> If my maths is right, 99.9999% of the world's populations leaves about
> 6,500 people that we can not cater to - a group of 10K that only speak
> one language would require us to cater for their language.
>
> If Greg actually meant 99.999%, which his later email would
> suggestion, then it's 65,000, which is slightly more doable.
>

world population=6,600,000,000. literacy rate is about 82% so that is
5,400,000,000

5,400,000,000*0.0001 comes out at a bit over half a million.

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geni