[Rhodes22-list] Speaking of Reliable Sources (Political)

[Michael D. Weisner]

Herb,

Yep, you are correct, it was posted complete with the error in calculation. 
Nonsense?  It has been shown that when you're off by a factor 1,000 it is 
much easier to propose economic solutions.  The "K-Error" refers to a 
similar failure mode in the calculation of medication dosage.

>From the esteemed Wikipedia 
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indefinite_and_fictitious_numbers):
"Words ending in the sound "-illion", such as zillion, jillion, and 
gazillion, are often used as fictitious names for an unspecified, large 
number by analogy to names of large numbers such as million, billion and 
trillion. Their size is dependent upon the context, but can typically be 
considered large enough to be unfathomable by the average human mind."

"These terms are often used as hyperbole or for comic effect, or in loose, 
unconfined conversation to present an un-guessably large number. Since these 
are undefined, they have no mathematical validity and no accepted order, 
since none is necessarily larger or smaller than any of the others."

Most folks have no idea what a billion bucks looks like let alone a 
trillion.  Let's make it a gazillion and remove all semblance of meaning.


Mike
s/v Shanghai'd Summer ('81)
Nissequogue River, NY

From: "Herb Parsons" <hparsons at parsonsys.com>Sent: Thursday, October 02, 
2008 11:15 AM
> Didn't one of our esteemed regulars post this nonsense as some sort of
> "plan"?
>
> http://www.snopes.com/politics/taxes/dividend.asp
>
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