Texas Cooperative Extension estimated in 2004 that the population of wild hogs in Texas was between 1.5 and 2 million. If there were 2 million hogs in 2004, and that number has possibly doubled three times a year for the last three years, it could mean, well, a whole lot of hogs.
If this were true exactly 2 years ago, we would have just had our seventh doubling. Well, 2 to the seventh power is 128. Multiply that by 2 million.
I'm sorry, but Texas does NOT have 250 million wild hogs.
This is a clear example of numeric illiteracy.
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