Hi

> >On 09/ 9/10 10:47 AM, Jan Groenewald wrote:
> >>* the price of the software
> >>http://www.wolfram.com/events/southafrica2010/
> >>$139.95 even for students. I'm not sure I can convey
> >>how astronomical that amount to almost all African
> >>students.

On Thu, Sep 09, 2010 at 08:43:41AM -0500, Jason Grout wrote:
> Can you put it in terms of numbers of work days for a student
> working? For example, we pay I think $9/hour at our institution, so
> $139.95 would be 15.5 hours, or around two full-time days.

Poverty is pervasive, not isolated, so even at a more relative
comparison like working hours, the context is left out.
I guess at least three times that. At worst thirty times that.

I have emailed the local reseller to ask for prices, and can 
ask Mathematica if they show up here.

regards,
Jan


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