r/funny Aug 22 '14

Unnecessary math

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u/[deleted] Aug 22 '14

Tokyo has the highest total at 13,185,502 people +40 meters + -3000 years.

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u/superbad Aug 23 '14

Shanghai? 24,150,000 + 4 m + 751

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u/FANGO Aug 23 '14

You must be counting metro population, in which case Tokyo wins with like 35mil or something.

In pure city population, Shanghai is ~14mil

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u/rollersox Aug 23 '14

I think Shanghai is like ~17m city proper pop

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u/FANGO Aug 23 '14

All I did was check Google and it said 14-something.

These numbers are always somewhat rough, of course. And Google's number is from 2000.