On Wed, 25 Jun 2008 14:32:09 +0100, Bill Pragnell
<bil### [at] hotmailcom> wrote:

>Stephen wrote:
>> On Tue, 24 Jun 2008 12:33:29 +0100, Bill Pragnell
>> <bil### [at] hotmailcom> wrote:
>> 
>>> Hmm, taking Doctor John's figures of 30x50km and assuming London to be 
>>> rectangular, let's call it an even 1500 km2. An overestimation, but it's 
>>> the right order of magnitude. That's about 1.2% of England alone 
>>> according to Wikipedia, and barely 0.6% of the UK as a whole...
>> 
>> Have you ever heard of the 7.84 company?
>
>I hadn't, until I Wikipediaed it. But I'm still none the wiser... you'll 
>have to explain the relevance (words of 1 syllable, please!)

It is a reference to 84% of the land in Scotland being owned by 7% of
the population.

As for relevance it flew into my head like a cosmic ray leaving a
trail of light. For the backfill on the story we need to meet up in
London for the next LonPovCon ;)

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Regards
     Stephen

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