[thelist] Many or More?

Julian Rickards julian.rickards at gmail.com
Thu Oct 12 15:55:55 CDT 2006


That too is one of my points: 1 million pages is many but in a sea of 2+
billion web pages, 1 million is a pretty small number.

On 12/10/06, apathetic <apatheticgenius at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On 11/10/06, Julian Rickards <julian.rickards at gmail.com> wrote:
> > My statement is "most web pages created since the mid-1990's use tables
> for
> > layout" and she wonders if I should have written "many" instead of
> "most".
>
> Most.
>
> "Many" means a high number but could still be a fairly low percentage
> of the total, where "most" means a very high percentage.  Most sites
> did indeed use tables for layout, because there were no alternatives.
>
> Tim
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