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hawaiianSpotter91 t1_jcy1x64 wrote

There would be 50 countries not talking to each other

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notapolita t1_jcy42v2 wrote

50? In Europe alone there are 44 countries. The United Nations consists of 193 countries.

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kaismama t1_jcyj1l2 wrote

50 of the ~195 countries in the world sounds right.

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Brain_Hawk t1_jcyzth9 wrote

You did the math wrong. It's not single countries, it's pairs of countries.

So for example, the USA not talking to Cuba. That's one pair

Now over the 193 countries in the United Nations, that makes 18528 pairs, meaning a pair of countries not talking to each other.

So assuming we maintain your estimate of around 25% of countries not talking to each other, we would have something more like 4,632 unique pairs of countries that are no longer speaking.

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