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Re: If we all lived in New York City it would be easy. 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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| 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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