Mike Linksvayer

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I saw a headline with 68000 in it, scare thing about undocumented people or something. Searched news and there are also 68000 jobs at stake, 68000 acres, 68000 grandstand seats, 68000 landless, 68000 pounds, 68000 jobseekers, 68000 GDP per capita...
Well, there are a lot of 67000 somethings and 69000 somethings in the news too.

Mike Linksvayer at 2014-03-31T15:48:35Z

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As long as there isn't 68000 things citing 68000 things we are ok I think.

/me wonders if 6x000 is the new news speak for “a lot of”

Freemor at 2014-03-31T16:19:49Z

Nah, there are just a lot of numbers rounded to thousands in the news. Only one CPU family regularly identified with only rounded to thousands number that I can recall though.

Mike Linksvayer at 2014-03-31T16:48:16Z

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Can we get a comprehensive graph starting at 1000 and moving up, to see the patternzzz?

Mark Holmquist at 2014-03-31T20:35:05Z