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		gus_massa 10 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Hundreds quarantined as measles outbreak accelerat... It's weird that it compares the numbers in all Britain to only "a district of around 300,000 people". Google says there are 70.000.000 persons there: 7E7/3E5/250 = .93 ~ 1 << 20 deaths << 10000 "ear or chest infections" > That is about a million to one chance A million to one is much bigger, the number in the example are almost 100 millions to one per year

vmilner 10 days ago [–]

I think it means 'Given a district of 300,000 people in Britain (in 1986)...'

gus_massa 10 days ago | [–]

Thanks. Fix the number, 5.5E7 people there in 1986

5.5E7/3E5/250 = 0.75 << 20 death << 10000 other problems

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