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Date Posted: Sun, 02/ 9/03 1:36pm
Author: sunny
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Re: 2 little questions
In reply to: tash"ana 's message, "Re: 2 little questions" on Sun, 02/ 9/03 12:54pm

>>tash, if you look at the "members" page n scroll down
>>to the bottom, you will see that "member's are
>>298 pages LONG" :) . lets see now, if you
>>do the math, a page is usually 11 inches long,
>>multiply that by 298, ie, 11x298 = 3278 inches. divide
>>that by 12in, i.e.,(12in in 1ft) and you get 3278/12 =
>>approx 273 n 3/4 ft .... :) ...
>>
>>But! that is ALL the members serially.
>>
>>Therefore, a "senior member" would be 3278/298
>>= 11 inches ... :) ...

Well, by my reckonin' you'd have to divide 3278 by the number of members which is 8,933 which would lead to a pretty pitiful result :o((

Or you could divide by the # of "Active Members" [LOL], ie 147
which would lead you to an "average" of 22.3 inches or about 2ft.

Happy Now ???
--------------

>>now, if you fold a piece of paper(11in) into 3rds,
>>that comes out to be 3 n 3/5ths of an inch. That would
>>be the "junior member".
>>
>>now add: 11 + 3.7 = 14.7 n divide that by 2, i.e.,
>>14.7/2 = 7.35 inches ... :)... that
>>being the Average Member.. which was the source
>>of your amusement...:)
>>
>>Are you still happy?? :)
>
>
>you only gave one dimension, so it's.... hard to say.
>
>that math.... was impressive. except for the dividing
>it by a foot, couldn't see where you got that, since
>you had multiplied it by 11 inches.... but hey, I
>have never been able to do any math. it's too
>abstract for me, it's like if someone walked up and
>demanded, "speak Russian, NOW!!"
>
>the high school and junior high I went to, they only
>required one math class in those 6 years.
>
>so thanks for your calculations, it did shed SOME
>light on the subject, but... didn't give the whole
>picture.
>
>in other words, you were a good starter but there was
>an incomplete finish. but hey... it's okay.... I had
>fun anyway.

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