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In talk.abortion, packer@amarna.gsfc.nasa.gov (Charles Packer) writes:

>Estimating the size of the crowd from the ground was easier than
>for a lot of demonstrations. The stationary crowd was seated on
>the Mall in a rectangular area. I looked at the densest clusters
>of people and it looked like 10 people per 100 square feet, and

Densest clusters had 10 people per 100 sq.ft?

>that's being generous.  Then I estimated the ratio of open grass
>to seated people in the various sectors of the Mall. Where
>people were standing, I called that 20 people per 100 square

Standing areas had 20 per 100 sq. ft.?.....

Hold it....I see a definite problem with your math here. I saw the rally
on TV, and 20 per 100 sq. ft. (about the size of a medium bedroom in
a house in the D.C. area) would still not account for the shoulder to
shoulder jamm packed view I saw.

Not only that, but how did the densest areas have less than the standing
areas?

Leave the counting to those who supposedly have some expertise in this
area. I'd go with the 500,000 (which I think was probably a little low)
before I'd even think of listening to your number.

Ron