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To: freedumb2003

I wouldn't consider 51% most.


34 posted on 08/31/2006 8:07:39 PM PDT by babygene
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To: babygene
I wouldn't consider 51% most.

I take it you don't watch the Senate very often.

37 posted on 08/31/2006 8:14:18 PM PDT by Doctor Stochastic (Vegetabilisch = chaotisch ist der Charakter der Modernen. - Friedrich Schlegel)
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To: babygene

In my dictionary here, a definition of "most" is "the majority of". "Majority" is defined as "a number or percentage equaling more than half of a total". Therefore, calling 51% "most" seems to make sense to me.


38 posted on 08/31/2006 8:15:06 PM PDT by Phocion ("Protection" really means exploiting the consumer. - Milton Friedman)
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To: PatrickHenry
"....most planets have wildly elliptical orbits!"

"A circle is not an ellipse!"

"1^720" is a really big number

"..... infrared light causes sunburn...."

41 posted on 08/31/2006 8:19:26 PM PDT by longshadow (FReeper #405, entering his ninth year of ignoring nitwits, nutcases, and recycled newbies)
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To: babygene
"I wouldn't consider 51% most."

most /moʊst/ Pronunciation Key - Show Spelled Pronunciation[mohst] Pronunciation Key - Show IPA Pronunciation
–adjective, superl. of much or many with more as compar.

1. in the greatest quantity, amount, measure, degree, or number: to win the most votes.
2. in the majority of instances: Most operations are successful.
3. greatest, as in size or extent: the most talent. –noun
4. the greatest quantity, amount, or degree; the utmost: The most I can hope for is a passing grade.
5. the greatest number or the majority of a class specified: Most of his writing is rubbish.
6. the greatest number: The most this room will seat is 150.

154 posted on 09/01/2006 5:22:33 AM PDT by Lunatic Fringe (Man Law: You Poke It, You Own It)
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To: babygene

If you had 100 people, and had 51 stand to your left, and 49 people standing to your right, wouldn't most of the people be to your left?


201 posted on 09/01/2006 7:52:04 AM PDT by dmz
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