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Notable numbers: Zettajoules, virtual charters and terrible presidents

Donald Trump, GOP presidential candidate
Donald Trump, GOP presidential candidate AP

91 The percentage of registered Republican voters who are dissatisfied with the way things are going in the nation today

89 The percentage who say President Obama is not taking the threat from ISIS seriously enough

76 The percentage who say the government’s anti-terrorism policies have not gone far enough to adequately protect the country

75 The percentage of Republicans who say they would support sending ground troops to fight ISIS in Iraq and Syria

75 The percentage who say the U.S. would be safer if more people carried guns

90 The percentage of the heat energy from man-made global warming that goes into the oceans instead of the ground

150 The number of zettajoules of energy the oceans absorbed between 1865 and 1997

150 The number they absorbed between 1998 and 2015

2 The number of zettajoules that would be produced by exploding an atomic bomb the size of the one dropped on Hiroshima every second for a year

58.62 The average global temperature in 2015, the highest recorded in 136 years of record-keeping

0.29 How much higher that temperature was than in 2014

1.62 How much higher 2015 was than the average for the 20th century

$200 million What criminals on dating sites stole from victims last year

4,000 The number of times an emergency room doctor clicks a mouse in a 10-hour shift

18,802 The number of civilians killed in Iraq between the start of 2014 and Oct. 31

2,800 The number killed in 2011

47,055 The number of Americans who died of drug overdoses in 2014

125 How many that means died per day

10.9 million The estimated number of undocumented immigrants in the United States, the lowest number since 2003

52 The percentage of U.S. voters who said in a Pew Research survey that Donald Trump would make a poor or terrible president

44 The percentage who said that about Hillary Clinton

42 About Jeb Bush

36 About Chris Christie

35 About Bernie Sanders

34 About Ben Carson

31 About Ted Cruz

29 About Marco Rubio

24 About John Kasich

35 The percentage of U.S. voters who said in the Pew Research survey that Clinton would make a good or great president

31 The percentage who said that about Trump

30 About Sanders

28 About Cruz

26 About Carson

24 About Rubio

19 About Christie

17 About Bush

13 About Kasich (though 31 percent of respondents said they’d never heard of him, the highest)

351 The number of students who dropped out of the virtual N.C. Connections Academy its first three months of operation, accounting for 20 percent of total enrollment

331 The number who dropped out of Virtual Academy over the same time period, or 19 percent of its enrollment

This story was originally published January 22, 2016 at 4:00 PM with the headline "Notable numbers: Zettajoules, virtual charters and terrible presidents."

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