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From: nrh@inmet.UUCP
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Subject: Re: Orphaned Response - (nf)
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Date: Thu, 15-Mar-84 00:14:34 EST
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Posted: Thu Mar 15 00:14:34 1984
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inmet!nrh    Mar 12 01:20:00 1984

Oh drat!  I've just learned that my off-the-cuff analysis of how 
much food our agricultural surplus could be turned into 
is off by a factor of ten.  As near as I can tell, I misquoted
the price of potatoes (misread the decimal point).  The price of
potatoes is in fact about $7 per 50 pound bag, leading to a price
of $0.14 per pound of potato, (not $1.50) meaning that our agricultural
surplus easily suffices to feed all the hungry of Africa and the East.
It turns out that (assuming no OTHER errors) we can add 1300 (not 130)
calories to everyone's diet.    That would be enough to bring everyone
up past the 100% minimum referred to in my almanac.

That'll teach me.  

Thanks to eag!sdc for pointing out my error.  Harpo won't let me reply 
to him directly.

And now, back to the uncivilized melee....