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Old 2012-10-08, 23:58   Link #6343
Vexx
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Originally Posted by risingstar3110 View Post
Thank, Vexx

Basically in this published article i'm reading, there is this guy who (as i see) supposedly divided "3 M T" by "90 MT" and somehow got 0.3% (?!?!). Then happily declared that it 's similar to the figure of 0.5-2% from another guy

So was really frustrated here not knowing whether he carelessly forgot that 3/90 = ~3%, or it's simply a case of 3 and 9,000,000 with unknown extra calculations behind it
I'm going to *guess* he was using "metric tons" as "M T" and "megaton" as "MT" ... but it still doesn't add up.
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