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"The half-life of a public corporation today is about 30 years: ten half-lives out — 300 years hence — we may expect only one in a million to survive." Am I th
by depoll 14y ago
"The half-life of a public corporation today is about 30 years: ten half-lives out — 300 years hence — we may expect only one in a million to survive."
Am I the only one who read this and went "Wait, 10 half-lives... that's 1/(2^10)... that would mean about 1 in 1,000 survive -- not 1 in 1,000,000."?
- maxerickson 14y agoHe acknowledges the mistake in the comments.
- depoll 14y agoAh -- didn't see that. Wasn't so much a criticism (it doesn't take away from the article at all) as it was an observation that something really trivial stuck in my head ;)