Hi Alexei:

you wrote:

>"Behind every man alive stand thirty ghosts, for that is the ratio by
>which the dead outnumber the living. Since the dawn of time, a hundred
>billion human beings have walked the planet Earth." -- arthur c. clarke

Good old Arthur must have written this several years ago, since the world
population just recently passed the six billion mark. 100 billion total
humans/6 billion live humans=16.6 ghosts per each live human.

John Carmichael
Tucson Arizona

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