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On 01/13/2018 08:45 PM, Nasser M. Abbasi wrote:
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> I used 2.5 vendors for 2012, which is half the 5 vendors
> you said there were in 2000.

I didn't say there were 5 vendors in 2000; I'm sure there were more. Nor is it 
likely that the number of vendors in 2012 was the same as in 2000.

It's probably better to use proportions than actual numbers: 2000 => 1.0, 2012 
=> 0.5, 2017 => 0.1 (to one significant digit).

The earliest that Ada 2X will be five years old will be 2025.

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Jeff Carter
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