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May 20th 2006, 07:18 PM
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Math is fun.

When I was 2 years old, I was 35 inches tall. When I was 4 years old, I was 40 inches tall. So... 5 inches every two years, lets ignore the height I was when I was born. That means I should have been 8 feet 4 inches tall when I was 20 years old, and I should be 16 feet 8 inches tall when I'm 40 years old!

Granted, the population will probably increase to over 7 billion in the next 15 years, but you can't extrapolate that from two data points.


Indeed. You might as well try to predict what side a coin will land on every time of a thousand tosses as try to guess population growth and numbers of the future. You'll have just as little chance of success.