On 15 February 2011 04:33, geni geniice@gmail.com wrote:
On 15 February 2011 04:00, Ian Woollard ian.woollard@gmail.com wrote:
Anyway, so I stop there. Even 40 million appears completely unsupportable. It looks like it's off again by about another order of magnitude.
Oh really?
Yeah, really. That page claims we only have 3% of notable Poles. Are you really, seriously, telling me we only have 3% of ALL notable biographies??? Because that's what that page is assuming to calculate that 40 million.
People have been keeping records for a long time. Western Europe has very comprehensive records going back 200 years. More patchy records strech back about 8000 years.
Yup.
When you consider the number of politicians, military leaders, aristocracy, industrialists, sportspeople, scientists, writers, artists, musicians, performers and general hangers on there have been in that time it's quite a lot of people.
How many is probably impossible to calulate.
It's not impossible to calculate, you look at the counts from an encyclopedias of famous people. And they very typically list historical people as well as living people.
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geni