Peter Charles wrote:
On Sat, 18 Feb 2006 16:08:01 -0500, "Wayne Knight"
wrote:

Maybe NBC doesn't want Canadians to know the US is leading Canada in the
medal totals. ))


We were ahead for a while and after the hockey finals, we'll probably
be ahead again.


In actual fact, Canada is quite far ahead of the US in medal earnings.

Consider that the population of the US is 295,734,134 and they have 13
medals. On a per capita basis, this gives them = 0.0000000440 medals
per person.

Canada has a population = 32,805,041 people and we have 11 medals. On a
per capita basis, that gives us 0.0000003353 medals per person.

The ratio of the number of medals per person indicates that Canada has
won 7.627991531 times as many medals per person as the US, on a per
capita basis.

Of course, this may be one of those times when it is best not to think
about things too much.

Tim Lysyk