# Kevin Trudeau is Going to Prison

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**Category:** The BBQ Pit\
**Created:** [March 18, 2014, 1:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kevin-trudeau-is-going-to-prison/683995 "2014-03-18T13:03:10Z")\
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**Post date:** [March 18, 2014, 8:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kevin-trudeau-is-going-to-prison/683995/35 "2014-03-18T20:57:49Z")

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> [@mhendo](#):
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> The math here does not seem to compute. How can selling 850,000 copies of a $30 book generate $39 million in revenue?

> [@Skywatcher](#):
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> A math magician did it.

Actually it was a physicist…

> [@How to have light move faster than C](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-to-have-light-move-faster-than-c/682160/215):
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> I AM A PHYSICIST, uncredentialed yes, but a physicist and I work just as long and hard as any other.  
> And because I never learnt the math, I have had to do every physical model in my head.

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