On Wed, 2008-09-24 at 11:41 -0600, Brandon Stout wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Naveen Dhanuka wrote: > > > The campaign is “Obama for Change“. > > i just reverted back the words and it reads “Change for Obama“. > > But besides humor there lotz of sense to it. > > Wikipedia reports that the population of USA is 305,238,000. > > Now if every American donates Change > > ($1) a Day to Obama, the amount of money Democarts would have for a > > year is $ 111,411,870,000. > > I dun see any bottle necks here. > > In America everyone has CreditCards and Internet penetration is greatest. > > So humor using Change for Obama campaign would be a great hit if used in > > cartoon columns.And if you reveal the maths in newspaper, I hope you would > > see fireworks.Best wishes & regards > > > > Naveen Dhanuka > > I took calculus in high school and haven't had a math class since then. > However, I don't think I need calculus to reveal the math here: > > 305,238,000 People * $1/People = $305,238,000 > > You were off by: > > $111,411,870,000 - $305,238,000 = $111,106,632,000
111411870000 / 305238000 = 365 He apparently was saying that if every American (ignoring that our population is increasing) donated a dollar a day for a year, we would have $111B. While we're at it, if everybody sent just a single dollar to everybody else, we would each be $300M richer! Corey
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