Re: Hypocrite of the week? Hayden Panettiere wants to save dolphins from hungry Japanese, doesn't care about cows or chickens

Terry Lomax <Lomax47@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:

> On Feb 16, 10:56 pm, Mark Nobles <cmn-nos...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> 
> > > > Oh, come on, there were billions and billions oC buffalo, one
heard
> > > > covered 3 whole states!
> 
> > At their peak, there were estimated 60­100 million bison in the
> > mid-19th century.[2] Not billions and billions.
> 
> 60100 million IS "billions and billions".  60100 million is 60.1
> billion.  60 billion definitely qualifies as "billions and billions".
> 
> Why doesn't Hayden Whoever do something useful such as help restore
> the American prairie instead of trying to tell the the honorable
> Japanese what to do?
> 
No, 60­100 million means there is a range  0.06­0.10 billion. That is
not "billions and billions". That is at most one-tenth of one billion.
The punctuation means something.