 gogeta6
join:2002-06-20
San Diego, CA | reply to joebear29
Re: If we all lived in New York City it would be easy. umm square kilometers are smaller than square miles, but its pretty lame LA and NY dont have similar broadband offerings. |
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| said by gogeta6:
umm square kilometers are smaller than square miles, but its pretty lame LA and NY dont have similar broadband offerings.
Right, so more square people per square km than square mile.
And no, LA and NY don't have similar offerings, but my point is it would be easier to wire the nation if it was more compressed. For example, Alabama is larger than South Korea, we have 4,000,000 people compared to 48,000,000 South Koreans. I suspect wiring South Korea would be more cost effective. |
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| said by joebear29:
Right, so more square people per square km than square mile.
Frankly, Im appalled by your math. If you increase the area you count (Km -> Miles), you increase the people in that area you are counting.
Im ashamed noone here grasped this.
BTW S Korea stats (estimates for mid 2003):
Population ~ 48,300,000 People
Area ~ 98,480 Square Km
Density = 48,300,000 / 98,480 sq Km ~ 490 People/Sq Km
or 48,300,000 / 38,469 sq Miles ~ 1256 People/Sq Mile
Shame on all of you, back to 7th grade algebra for all of you.
USA stats (est 2003):
Pop ~ 290,342,554 People
Area ~ 9,629,091 sq Km
Density = 290,342,554 / 9,629,091 ~ 30 ppl/sq Km!!!
So ISPs have to lay more than 16 times the cable/infrastructure to reach the same # of ppl. That tells you alot!
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| said by joshuad156:
said by joebear29:
Right, so more square people per square km than square mile.
Frankyly, Im appalled by your math. If you increase the area you count (Km -> Miles), you increase the people in that area you are counting.
Im ashamed noone here grasped this.
BTW S Korea stats (estimates for mid 2003):
Population ~ 48.3 Million People
Area ~ 98,480 Square Km
Density = 48,300,000 / 98,480 sq Km ~ 490 People/Sq Km
or 48,300,000 / 38,469 sq Miles ~ 1256 People/Sq Mile
Shame on all of you, back to 7th grade algebra for all of you.
Bah, to think I took calculus in college!
You are of course correct. When I "converted" square km to square miles I did it the lazy way and multiplied by 0.55, when I should have divided by 0.55.
Should have put more thought into the math. |
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| .55??!?!?!!?? I think i will stop there... |
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| said by joshuad156:
.55??!?!?!!?? I think i will stop there...
What you think I actually looked it up?
Hmm, lets see 100 km is about 55-60 mph, so 1 km equals .55-.60 miles, correct?
Thats from memory.
Oh, wait, its squared, duh, so it is about 0.4 (since 1 km actually .62 of a mile.)
No, I did not major in math. 
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| You must forgive me. 1) I am taking this all way off topic, but im in favor of representing correct facts. 2) im a CS major, so Math is of the utmost importance to me.
Actually:
1 Mile ~ 1.6 Km
.625 Mile ~ 1 Km
But whos counting, right? |
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| said by joshuad156:
You must forgive me. 1) I am taking this all way off topic, but im in favor of representing correct facts. 2) im a CS major, so Math is of the utmost importance to me.
Actually:
1 Mile ~ 1.6 Km
.625 Mile ~ 1 Km
But whos counting, right?
Lets hope its you, because if its me we're screwed.
And no, I don't work for NASA. |
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 bhhurdPremium
join:2003-02-13
Pennsburg, PA | reply to joebear29
Alabama may be larger, but you are forgetting that Korea has mountains. Roughly 70% of the land area is mountainous.
Certainly Inchon, Bucheon and Seoul were relatively easy to connect and inexpensive on a per capita basis. But the rest of the country has many small towns nestled in mountain valleys. |
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