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		firemanx on Aug 30, 2011 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: 87% of the U.S. Population are uniquely identified... In towns like mine, however, 40,000 people share the same zip code with the hospital. I'm sure there are quite a few more town like mine throughout the US.

dasil003 on Aug 31, 2011 [–]

Okay, well let's do the math:

US pop in 2000: 280,000,000 — US births in 2000: 4,000,000 — US births per day: 10,958 — Fraction of US pop that 40,000 represents: 0.0001428 — Number of births per day for the 40,000: 1.56

That seems inline with the conclusion of the paper. See any mistakes?

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