There are about 300 million people in America. 300 million / 5 million = 60. 12 / 60 = 1/5. Its your wildly inaccurate statement that I was referencing, not a fact. Your assertion that 1 in 5 million was in the circumstance that I and the dozen gamers I knew in the same circumstance would indicate that our population of 12 was a 5th of the US population in that circumstance.
Yes, my inclusion in that group is in the past tense, I having moved since then, and some of my friends having finally gotten broadband. It was however the recent past, and a lot of people are still there.
As for your comment about rural mississippi? Get your head out of your ass. There really are a lot of people there that have interests other than nascar, drugs or getting knocked up.
What is algebra, exactly? Is it one of those three-cornered things? -- J.M. Barrie