That's why those clever boffins have come up with the concept of standard deviations from the mean, which is what is referred to by five sigma. Quite a good real crisis identifier. (View Post)
All those Africans have every intention of changing their lifestyle though, from a level of poverty quite unimaginable to anyone who has not seen it to something well below the standard of living of … (View Post)
The terms lakh or 1,00,000 (one hundred thousand, written as 100,000 outside the Indian subcontinent) and crore or 1,00,00,000[1] (ten million written as 10,000,000 outside the subcontinent) are the … (View Post)
Peak irony and absurdity being the Italian sweatshops staffed exclusively by Chinese workers flown there to preserve the made-in-Europeness of their handiwork - by some accounts the entry point for c… (View Post)