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MooseFET wrote:

Unfortunately, they are most effective if you administer them EARLY in the infection cycle. You also need a prescription to get them

--so there is a delay in getting an appointment, as well as a waiting room where you potentially spread the infection. This also ASSSuMEs you have insurance coverage under the American Patchwork System(tm).

...and we all know that in a bad economy everyone who feels a little bad will be staying home.

We're probably mostly talking past each other. Being a Roman citizen was different from being a resident of the city of Rome. Most soldiers in the Imperial era were obviously not natives of the city of Rome, but a great many were citizens (and the rest became citizens on being demobilized, iirc).

Cheers,

Phil Hobbs

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In war up to about 1900 decimated meant 1 in 10 survived. From latin roots deci "1/10". Decimal munbers.=20

Looks like he got it ass backwards. It was a 90% death rate. Only a

contributing=20

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infecting

No. It is bigger than that. WHO is being used as well. ;

That may be what was commonly meant as "decimated", but the word means one-in-ten killed (fragged, actually), from the Latin "deci" = 1/10. Decimal numbers. As in, Romans. It was their word - they assigned the meaning long before 1900.

No. It means that one in ten LIVED. The rest were killed, hence decimated population, as in one in ten remained.

As in THEY (those that remain in "Decicity").

"Hey, did you read the news? The Hun decimated Decicity yesterday..."

That means that there were one tenth the population as before... decimated.

krw wrong again, as usual.

ng

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Not according to Wikipedia -

It means "removal of a tenth".

kevin

Naturally. He's AlwaysWrong.

John

DimBulb is once again, as always, AlwaysWrong.

everywhere.

Well, google a bit before you make statements of fact, and you won't be so consistantly wrong. And don't snarl and curse so much, because that makes people want to put you down. And use your real name, because then people might treat you like a real person. Most

In electronics (anybody remember electronics?) decimation can refer to reducing the number of samples in a sample set or a data stream. There's no specific fraction; it might be 2:1, 30000:1, or even

The easy way is to throw away every Nth sample, decimation by N, but that's potentially tossing valuable signal-to-noise ratio and needlessly generating aliases where maybe there weren't any. It's a little better to do something like averaging those N samples. A more general approach is to stream the samples into a finite-impulse-response filter to do some weighted average of the data stream, and clock out at a lower rate than you clock in.

The output of a decimation filter can often have more usable bits of precision than the input.

John

Never heard the term used as such, though trading bandwidth for bits is fairly obvious.