[Avodah] How many Korban Pesachs could be sacrificed in 1 day?

[Eli Turkel]

<<Recently I learned Pesachim 64b (daf yomi) where the Gemara states that
King Agrippas wanted to take a census so he had the Cohanim count the
number of Korban Pesachs that were brought and it came out to 1.2 million
korbanos, 12 million people (10 to a korban)>>

In addition to the problems of so many korbanot in the short time the
number of 12 million people in Jerusalem is quite impossible. Also not all
Jews came to Jerusalem. Including Jews from various parts of the Roman
empire would give at least 2 million Jews.
OTOH The census of Augustus gave a population of 4-5 million people in the
entire Roman empire
http://www.livescience.com/9732-ancient-rome-real-population-revealed.html
meaning that about 50% of the population of the entire Roman empire was
Jewsih not including the many Jewish sympathizers who we know were numerous

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Eli Turkel
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