I like this:
Turns out that a very small percentage of a very, very large number is still significant. Your hand sanitizer is only as good as the number of decimal points the nines stretch to.
by Jamie Condliffe in Gizmodo, on this:
via xkcd.
(It’s 20,000 for those of you struggling with your decimals.)
I am always somewhat annoyed by the rampant paranoia in sanitiser commercials. It is a miracle humans managed to survive the last few 100,000 years.
Phaezen > Indeed. And hand sanitiser will help us get through at least 99.9% of the next 100,000.
Haha! I’ll take my chances with that .000000001%