half a million

[totient]

500,000 is a very big number. Especially when it's the number of people stranded at a single train station, in Guangzhou. I say "at" and not "in" because, of course, they don't fit inside.

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[doctordidj.livejournal.com]

I was in that station, October 2000. It's a big station, which makes that crowd that much more impressive. There are an awful lot of people in China, and the crowds everywhere are so much denser than here that it's hard to describe. But I was never stuck in a crowd quite like that.