[Foundation-l] A simple question on languages.

[Thomas Dalton]

On 23/01/2008, geni <geniice at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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.

Where did 0.0001 come from? That's 0.01%, which is what's left from
99.9% - did you forget to convert from percent to decimal?