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Originally Posted by Muta
Is that so?
Directly from StatsCan:
---------------------DENSITY----------LAND AREA (SQ.KM)---------RATIO
Calgary (City): -----1,360.2/kmē --------------726.5 ---------------1.87
Vancouver(City): ---5,039.0/kmē -------------114.71 ---------------44.0
Calgary's urban sprawl is assumedly MUCH, MUCH bigger. Each Calgarian has approximately 24x as much space as a Vancouverite does, given City boundaries and population.
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This is some very bad math.
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Originally Posted by MaxPower
I'm confused. What does the "ratio" mean? Are the units of the ratio not 1/(km^4).... what is that?
If I want space per person, can I not invert the density to get:
CAL: 1/1360.2 = 0.000735 km^2/person
VAN: 1/5039 = 0.000198 km^2/person
The ratio between these two is 3.70. I would interpret that as each Calgarian having 3.7046 times the space of a Vancouverite, not 24x.
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He has the right answer. your answer is the space multiplied by the city size again which is why your answer is 726.5/114.7 larger then his is. You're double multiplying by city size.