On Sun, 17 Jun 2007 17:18:57 -0700, you wrote: >on 6/17/07 12:31 PM, Darren Garrison at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> 7% per what? You left out the rate. I'm guessing "century" >OOPS, sorry, that is per 1,000 years.
Ah. Would that 7 percent per 1,000 years be added onto the percent change from the previous thousand years, like compound interest? If so, going by a 7 percent change, it would take only 10,000 years for 96% of the core words to change. If you go by the low end of the estimate and say the US was colonized 12,000 years ago, that would be a 125% change of the core words. If I'm doing the math right (taken from this page http://www.1728.com/compint.htm). Even if the "interest" isn't compounded and it is straight 7 percent on the original figure, it would take only around 14,000 years for a 100% change of the core words. ______________________________________________ Meteorite-list mailing list [email protected] http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
