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echo: science
to: mark lewis
from: Michiel van der Vlist
date: 2008-03-29 10:47:30
subject: here`s one for ya...

Hello mark,

On Friday March 28 2008 12:51, you wrote to DAVID WILLIAMS:

 ml> -> where do you get "significant fraction" from? it
takes 90 minutes
 ml> -> for the IS to go around the earth... seems to me that 45 minutes of
 ml>  -> that is in the light and the other half in the dark ;)

 DW>> So 1/2 is not a significant fraction?

 ml> i dunno... i hear "significant fraction" as "more
than half" ;)

A significant fraction is anything significantly greater than zero.


Cheers, Michiel

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