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[โ€“] BruceTwarzen@lemm.ee -1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I'm confused as well. Isn't that like saying that there is more sand in a sandbox than on every veach on the planet?

[โ€“] CileTheSane@lemmy.ca 3 points 2 months ago

We're talking about increasingly smaller fractions here. It's more like saying if you ground up all the rocks on earth into sand you would have more individual pieces of sand than individual rocks.