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From: Patrick Scheible <kkt@zipcon.net>
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Subject: Re: Solving the Floating-Point Goldilocks Problem!
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Date: Mon, 05 Sep 2011 23:12:39 -0700
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Peter Flass <Peter_Flass@Yahoo.com> writes:

> On 9/4/2011 11:47 AM, Quadibloc wrote:
>> On Sep 3, 11:53 am, "Rod Speed"<rod.speed....@gmail.com>  wrote:
>>
>>> The non european form, mainly because the europeans are in the
>>> minority world wide.
>>
>> Huh? English speakers are in a smaller minority than Europeans.
>>
>> John Savard
>
>
> By gosh, you're right.  I had to check this and the population of
> Europe minus UK and Ireland is given at about 766 million.  The US,
> Ca, AU, NZ and the UK and Ire are about 433 million if I've got all
> the numbers right.

English is also the language of business and government in India.
Approximately 350 million Indians use it at least well enough to read,
if not to speak fluently.

-- Patrick