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by SOVIETIC-BOSS88 884 days ago
Title says billions, not trillions.
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evan_ 884 days ago
are you counting ants as people?
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araes 884 days ago
Super pedantic response, yet current estimate is 20 quadrillion ants on Earth.

https://www.science.org/content/article/how-many-ants-live-e...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orders_of_magnitude_(numbers)

    Humans: 8,000,000,000
    Trees:  3,000,000,000,000
    Ants:  20,000,000,000,000,000
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6510 884 days ago
I'm not saying aliens....
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fuzztester 884 days ago
at the rate we are going, soon ants will be counting people.
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__MatrixMan__ 884 days ago
There are 8 billion people on earth, more or less.
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croes 884 days ago
8 billion people, 26 billion records.

More than 3 per person.

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mtmail 884 days ago
Casual reminder that in some languages the American English trillion (10^12) is called a billion. It confusing but might explain the mistake. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billion
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