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Thought Experiment
From: Dan Allen
Date: 2002 Jun 11, 22:33 -0700
From: Dan Allen
Date: 2002 Jun 11, 22:33 -0700
I propose a thought experiment with a couple of "back of the envelope" estimation questions: 1) How many sextant users are there in the world? 2) What percentage of the world's population that are interested in sextants are on this mailing list? I of course do not know the answers to these questions, but I think we can make some reasonable assumptions to be able to come up with ballpark figures. If you decide to give this informal competition a try, please try and give us some of your reasoning behind your estimates, because that is the real interesting part of such a question! Dan Allen
