I can project a nearly infinite rate of growth in my personal income when I deposit a $3.95 rebate check. It's a matter of defining the sampling period. The truth is, that kind of creative statistics is exactly what allowed Worldcom (and the rest of the telecom) to get into the deep pile of manure. --vadim On Thu, 15 Jan 2004, Randy Bush wrote:

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He also said that Internet is growing by 1000% a year. "we're adding a DS3 per day [to the network]"

and, at the time, both statements were true.

randy