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meeshoo
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17B life years could be saved if air pollution was...
I think there has been a miscalculation. It's 17.26 billion years, not 17 billion years.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rounding
meeshoo
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I know they rounded up that number, but that's not correct, nor scientific. Do we fucking love science or not? 0.1 billion years is 100 million years, you can't just round them up like they don't mean anything.
IAmLiterallyAB
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It's perfectly acceptable to round in an article summary like this. Such a ridiculous thing to complain about
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...I swear HN comments get dumber every day. Is this satire???
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