Re: Pakistan Rich list (official): Zardari 2nd richest with 1.8 billion dollars.
Last few ranks: 138, 143, 147, 150, 162, 168, 172, 175, 177, 178,179.
Many countries scored similar so they shared the rank. There are 41-42 countries with similar scores hence only 11 ranks. Just like there are 3 countries with rank 1, no ranks of "2" or "3". Rank 138 is 11th from last in the series mentioned above.
So, sorry ... I am wrong ... I did not knew that you could not even read figures ... Just joking :)
Bhai .. can you see that after 138 in above sequence there is 143 ... so, what that means? It means that next ranking below is 143rd ... because there are 5 who are ranked 138th.
You know what ... its like ... there were 180 students in a class ...
179 studnet got '100 out of 100' marks ... so they got first rank in the class
1 student got '0 out of 100' marks and failed .. because he was an idiot
Now this idiot goes home and telll his dad that his rank in class is 2nd ... someone asked that how many students in your class .. he said .. 180.
'hmmm .. well done son' .. his dad said.
Than his dad saw the result and found that he got '0 out of 100 ... a big duck'.
Dad asked ... 'Son .. you told me that your rank is 2nd in class of 180 students ... but you got 0 ... what it means?'
Son said that ... 'Dad ... 179 students got '100 out of 100' so they got 1st ... and I got '0 out of 100' (a big duck) so I got 2nd :)'
Bhai ... This studnet really deserved '0 out of 100' as he knew nothing. He was not 2nd ... he was last in the class... his ranking was bottom ranking ... or his rank was 180th in the class of 180.
Ranking is done like this:
Suppose there are 10 students in a class.
Let say there are two students that got 100 percent marks than they share 1st rank ... in that case there is no one at 2nd rank ... because actually 2 are at 1st rank ... next rank empty is for 3rd postion.
Hence the one who got lower marks than these two would be ranked 3rd ... not second .. and so on ... for instance, if there are 3 that got same marks and is below the person that got 3rd highest marks than 4th rank would have 3 people ... and than you would not have 5th and 6th for person who get lower than these 6 students ... (because there are already 6 students above him) .. so he would rank 7th in the class ..... and so on.
But one have to always say that rank in how many ... because .. if there are 10 students .. than bottom rank is 10th .. and that means the person on 10th position is at bottom and got horrible result.
But if there are 100 students than being 10th is good .. as it is not bottom but amongst top 10 ... and bottom position is the person whose rank is 100th. ... that is why one have to say ... X out of Y .. or in this case .. ranked 10th out of 100.