The Olympic Carrier carried exactly 1,345 people, as explicitly told. The 2,028 figure is inaccurate because in a deleted scene on the DVD which likely occurred mid-episode, it is specifically shown that there are exactly 49,317 survivors left, according to the White Board. This had been rounded down from 49,998 earlier in the episode, likely due to the fact that they were continuing to revise estimates of total population and eliminating overcounts or adjusting for wounded people who had died.
It is apparent that this figure of 49,317 is immediately before the loss of the Olympic Carrier, because 49,317 minus 1,345 equals exactly 47,972, which is the figure stated near after the destruction of the Olympic Carrier. The 2,028 assumption is merely the result of the editing process and there is no discontinuity in the numbers.
- Allright, I buy it. --April Arcus 17:27, 2 December 2005 (EST)