← Back to context Comment by rogerrogerr 11 hours ago “Occasional” implies a rate at least several orders of magnitude higher than actual. 2 comments rogerrogerr Reply JCharante 9 hours ago if it happens once a decade occasional sounds right rogerrogerr 9 hours ago So far this year alone, there have been 31,000,000 flights. https://www.airportia.com/flights-monitor/. So somewhere around 300,000,000 flights per decade.If someone said an event happens “occasionally”, I would expect it to be significantly more frequent than 1/300,000,000.Powerball lottery odds are 1 in 292 million. I wouldn’t say that I “occasionally” win the lottery when I buy a ticket!
JCharante 9 hours ago if it happens once a decade occasional sounds right rogerrogerr 9 hours ago So far this year alone, there have been 31,000,000 flights. https://www.airportia.com/flights-monitor/. So somewhere around 300,000,000 flights per decade.If someone said an event happens “occasionally”, I would expect it to be significantly more frequent than 1/300,000,000.Powerball lottery odds are 1 in 292 million. I wouldn’t say that I “occasionally” win the lottery when I buy a ticket!
rogerrogerr 9 hours ago So far this year alone, there have been 31,000,000 flights. https://www.airportia.com/flights-monitor/. So somewhere around 300,000,000 flights per decade.If someone said an event happens “occasionally”, I would expect it to be significantly more frequent than 1/300,000,000.Powerball lottery odds are 1 in 292 million. I wouldn’t say that I “occasionally” win the lottery when I buy a ticket!
if it happens once a decade occasional sounds right
So far this year alone, there have been 31,000,000 flights. https://www.airportia.com/flights-monitor/. So somewhere around 300,000,000 flights per decade.
If someone said an event happens “occasionally”, I would expect it to be significantly more frequent than 1/300,000,000.
Powerball lottery odds are 1 in 292 million. I wouldn’t say that I “occasionally” win the lottery when I buy a ticket!