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  1. trying to compute the odds of picking two random humans who could understand each other. is my methodology about right?
    oh my god twitter doesn’t include alt text from images in their API
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      conclusion is 8.1% chance
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        if everything was equally distributed, there'd be a %3.8 chance. the presence of larger languages raises the odds quite a bit.
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        data from en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_languages_by_total_number_of_speakers
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