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Originally Posted by HomeInMyShoes
2^36?
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The answer is just under 2^37, I think.
According to
wikipedia, we have the answer as
100-115 billion.
According to other formula, I came to another answer as 57 billion.
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All this means that in the 200,000 years since Homo Sapiens took her first steps across the African plains, just 57 billion people have ever lived. Astonishingly that means over 12% of all the people ever born are walking the planet at this very moment. Or to put it another way: one in eight people who have ever been born are alive today.
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Originally Posted by orlok
You may be right. I just found this quote from the population reference bureau site
...so it seems like it's not true.
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Yeah it's not true.
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In the 1970s there was a belief that 75% of all the people who had ever lived were alive in the 1970s, which would have put the total number of people who ever lived as of the 1970s as less than the number of people alive today. This view was eventually debunked.
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So, new question is, who's up next
Orlok (50 billion) or HomeInMyShoes (2^36)?