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What's not clear about it? They die at a steady rate of 25% per 7 years.


As reemrevnivek explains, the answer to "25% of what?" is the issue here. An exponential decay can be described with the same words.


There's a freaking graph. Are we really being this pedantic that we can't understand what he's saying?


I discovered when I got home that the graph was blocked by my office's web filter. Definitely makes more sense with it there. Thanks for your understanding!


You must be new here!


Sorry, I didn't think of the second interpretation.


So they have a quarter-life of 7 years?




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