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ST 28/5

 

Maths sum posed to PM Lee: Divide 5,000 by 4.6m

 

HOW much is 5,000 divided by 4.6 million?

 

That was the maths question Ms Chee Siok Chin challenged Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong to work out on the spot as she tried to prove her party's newsletter, The New Democrat, had limited reach.

 

The 5,000 figure represents the number of copies sold of the Singapore Democratic Party (SDP) newsletter which contained defamatory statements against the Government.

 

The other number refers to the population of Singapore.

 

Ms Chee posed the question and asked PM Lee if he had a calculator.

 

When he said he did not, she retorted: 'I'm sure your mind is astute enough to do a very simple mathematical calculation... and work it out.'

 

PM Lee worked out the calculation - around one in 1,000 - and then pointed out that the answer did not accurately reflect the article's reach.

 

This stretched beyond the number of newsletters sold, he said, when responding later to a question from his counsel Davinder Singh during re-examination.

 

There was also the 'word of mouth after the article has been read, circulating on the grapevine and in the coffee shops' - 'poisonously distorted, loaded, more and more damaging, impossible to trace, except in court, where the truth will come out', he said.

 

Of the 5,000 copies sold, 'each copy could have been circulated to many readers', he added.

 

In addition, 'Dr Chee, Ms Chee and several others (from the SDP) were going around' repeating the defamatory allegations in the newsletter, 'as broadly as possible, as loudly as possible', 'to achieve as much impact as possible', said Mr Lee.

 

Finally there was the Internet, where there were many more eyeballs reading the allegations.

 

During the earlier exchange with Ms Chee over the calculation she set for him, those in the public gallery were amused when she got her sums mixed up.

 

After Mr Lee worked out the one in 1,000 figure, Ms Chee said that was '0.0001' per cent of the population.

 

PM Lee had to correct her maths: 'I think you have one zero too many.' [laugh][laugh]

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Slowmo

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alamak

 

want to argue with elite and somemore use to be the big boss of signing the SGD.

 

 

this kind of people, dunno how come exist.... got balls to challenge, granted. But bo brains leh... how to become proper opposition like dat? [shakehead]

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Tkseah

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[laugh][laugh]

 

Dare to challenge LHL calculate on the spot and yet she never do homework and calculate beforehand.. [:p]

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Mr Lee was born on 10 February 1952 and completed his schooling in Singapore. He studied at the University of Cambridge, graduating with a Degree in Mathematics and a Diploma in Computer Science. He also obtained a Masters in Public Administration from the Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University.

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David

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Heard about his tokkong in accessing where the round is coming from in Arty.

 

No wonder my math is lousy, I did not go to a co-ed school like Nanyang Girls. I went to De Lasalle(chiak laksa).

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David

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Think she was trying to put to the court that the damages is minimal(by her own calculation) but obviously she got it wrong, very wrong.

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