Except he did get 80% of the results. His stated goal was to make it to India. He did the important part, which was to prove that you could cross the ocean to r

Except he did get 80% of the results. His stated goal was to make it to India. He did the important part, which was to prove that you could cross the ocean to reach another land mass. The other 80% of the work was sailing around the southern end of South America, and building the Panama Canal so you could actually reach Asia by sailing west from Europe.