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Ahhh. Very good point. Okay, I can accept that explanation. Thanks, Phantom Monstrosity.

I agree that the annotation said that the mist would snap people who had lower-than-normal allomantic potential. However, I don't think it JUST snaps those people. I found a place in the annotation where it mentions that it would snap people with normal potential as well: http://brandonsanderson.com/annotation/345/Mistborn-3-Chapter-Seventy I suppose the 16/100 would still be better than 17/100 since part of the point was for Preservation to leave the number 16 as a clue. In which case, the 1/16 people who stayed sick longer could have still been mistborn (16 people each with an alloy * 15 groups, 1 group of 16 mistborns).

The thing that I found odd is that 16% of people fell to the mist sickness. However, shouldn't that have been 17%? One for each of the 16 misting possibilities and one more for the mistborn. As soon as Elend and Yomen figured out the meaning of the 16%, I immediately came to the conclusion that Demoux and the other soliders that were sick the longest were probably mistborn rather than mistings. It made less sense to me for them to be atium mistings... I just finished reading the Mistborn Trilogy and have not yet read Alloy of Law. I have read many of the chapter annotations though. So, please excuse my ignorance if I said something that has already been discussed or explained.