[citation][nom]freggo[/nom]Ever heard of a bell curve or a standard deviation?It is VERY unlikely to have this work out. Math again...sorry.Then there are these inconsistencies... Examiner.com article Re. Google requests from November 14:"covering the first six months of 2012, U.S. government agencies made almost 8,000 requests to see private data on over 16 thousand users and accounts"I can not believe that Google received 'only' 209 all year from the US. That's got to be way too low.[/citation]
If 200 countries have requests and each reduces by 1 the further you go down until the last country has 1 request - that is 20,000 requests so the statistical averages work out.
Some of the more developed nations, nations with an active intelligence service, or special interest nations will all have similar figures such as UK, Germany, Japan, Israel, Korea, certain Arab states, the Vatican, etc and will all hovver around the 200 requests mark and will draw away the average from tiny nations with zero requests like Burkina Faso or St Kitts
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So yes, I think your maths do fail you, there are enough nations and an exact line of constant reduction to make it work, but plenty of wiggle room for some deviation, but nice try attempting to think what you read in a book at college makes you look smarter than other people