r/theydidthemath • u/RxHappy • 9h ago
[REQUEST] How many FPM does Daredevil hear in the city? farts per minute.
Daredevil can hear a gun cock from blocks away.
Is he hearing hundreds of farts per minute all day long?
r/theydidthemath • u/RxHappy • 9h ago
Daredevil can hear a gun cock from blocks away.
Is he hearing hundreds of farts per minute all day long?
r/theydidthemath • u/FragrantReference651 • 14h ago
The weight of each bit is just one electron and one electron weight around 9.1*10-31.
(69kg)/((9.110-31)kg/electron)=7.581031 electrons
This is also the number of bits, to convert to bytes. We just divide by 8 and get
9.481030 bytes or 7.8 million yottabytes(8.61018 terabytes).
This is just an approximation and I was being generous in the calculations, please correct me if i got something wrong, it is very possible since I am just a child and English is not my first language.
r/theydidthemath • u/HectorThePeaceful • 11h ago
i'm assuming that they meant the flight time between the cities but can't do thing myself cuz i'm buzy laughing my butt off
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r/theydidthemath • u/salamander-souls • 22h ago
So: There's this trivia game called that we use in my German (second language) class, and to finish the game, you have to collect 50,000 in-game dollars. To get money, you answer simple trivia questions. At first, a question is worth 1 dollar. The next is worth 2, then 3, etc until you break your answer streak by either being wrong or buying an upgrade.
I wrote the function f(X) = B((X/2)(2(C) + (X-1)(D))) to represent the total number of dollars earned in a given streak, where X is equal to the number of questions answered in a given streak, C is the number of dollars the first question in a streak is worth, and D is the number of additional dollars you earn for each successive question answered correctly in a streak. The initial function before buying any upgrades is f₁(x) = (X/2)(2+(X-1)).
With enough money, you can buy 4 upgrades from each of 3 categories that can change the output of the function. One is a "Multiplier" (B) upgrade, which will increase the B value. Another is the "Money Per Question" (C) upgrade, which will increase the C value. The last is the "Streak Bonus" (D) upgrade, which increases the D value.
B costs $50 for 1.5, $300 for 2, 2,000 for 3, and 12,000 for 5. C costs $10 for 5, $100 for 50, $1,000 for 100, and $10,000 for 500. D costs $20 for 3, $200 for 10, $2,000 for 50, and $20,000 for 250 Note that you do not have to buy the cheaper upgrades before the others, and they do not stack. The streak ends every time you buy an upgrade, but this only resets the streak bonus.
So, my question is: how can I optimize my purchase of upgrades in this silly little game so as to answer the least questions to earn $50,000, assuming I get none of them wrong?
r/theydidthemath • u/itsjonk • 22h ago
Presume that the car is filled to the brim of tennis balls.
Not sure exactly how helpful it may be, but the diameter for the tennis balls is somewhere between 2.575” and 2.7”. The dimensions of the car is 1.45m tall, 1.735m wide, and 4.64m deep. I don’t know the dimensions of the interior space. :-(
r/theydidthemath • u/Brilliant-Mouse9808 • 1d ago
If that keeps going, will there be a friend that is 1% sure that the statement is correct?
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r/theydidthemath • u/Small-Squash7328 • 1d ago
In the Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom, Link ascends a massive waterfall, starting at 209 meters above sea level and ending at 1290 meters above sea level, all in about 10 seconds (according to my unprofessional timer). To make things weirder, gravity stays the same, then significantly decreases right at the top. I don't know how much it does exactly, but I would guess it is about 1/6th of the gravity. Assuming that all the context is the same as earth (same gravity at the bottom and roughly moon's gravity at top, same air pressure, all that stuff), what did Link just experience? Is he having the worst ear popping of all time, and would he pass out? What are the Gs he is experiencing, and just all the other fun stuff?
Adding to this, the waterfall he ascended is polluted, and he then proceeds to climb roughly 1 KM in about 15 minutes
Picture was taken by me
r/theydidthemath • u/itsasseatnszn • 1d ago
How much CO2 would you save of you replaced every unnecessary stop sign with a yield sign. I assume the starting and stopping is the most inefficient part of driving. That being said, I know you can't replace all signs. Surely replacing 50% that don't cause unnecessary safety factors would save a lot of CO2 worldwide.
r/theydidthemath • u/mattdionis • 1d ago
I was curious about this cosmological savings plan and worked out the math:
The universe is approximately 13.8 billion years old. 13.8 billion years × 365 days × 24 hours = 120.9 trillion hours
If you saved $0.01 every hour for that entire duration: 120.9 trillion hours × $0.01 = $1.209 trillion
Interestingly, this almost exactly matches the combined net worth of the six wealthiest tech executives (Musk, Bezos, Zuckerberg, Cook, Pichai, and Altman) who were seated front and center at the 2025 Presidential Inauguration.
These six individuals have accumulated wealth equivalent to a penny accruing every single hour—from the first atoms forming, through our galaxy's birth, the creation of our solar system, the entire evolution of life on Earth, all of human history, up to this very moment. It's not just a large number—it's cosmologically large.
The mathematics are stark: A median earning household saving 10% annually accumulates $7,458 per year—a linear function. A billionaire earning just 7% on assets generates $70 million annually without working—an exponential function. After 10 years, the median earning household has saved $74,580, while the billionaire's wealth approaches $2 billion through compounding.
This creates two separate systems of wealth physics: one bound by human time and energy, the other limited only by financial mathematics.
I've done a deeper mathematical analysis of how wealth follows different physical laws at different scales in the attached post.
r/theydidthemath • u/Linerider99 • 22h ago
What is the % size?
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r/theydidthemath • u/Pattersonspal • 1d ago
I looked up at the sky and asked myself this question and identified that it required math that wasn't capable of. Assuming that the area you're in as relatively flat so that maybe the bottom 10 degrees of your vision is blocked and that there aren't any clouds.
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r/theydidthemath • u/Lycent243 • 1d ago
As in, climate change isn't going to get worse.
r/theydidthemath • u/qwertyuiopsrza • 1d ago
I’ve been trying to figure out the odds the chance of splitting a lottery jackpot with an exact number of others winners.
Take this game: A lottery in which you play by choosing 4 numbers out of 31 (and the same combination of numbers can be picked twice). Once the lottery is drawn - any one holding the 4 winning numbers wins. If 20,000 tickets are bought with a random selection of 4 numbers, what are the odds that exactly 2 people win? Or exactly 3, etc.?
r/theydidthemath • u/Curious-Translator77 • 1d ago
what
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r/theydidthemath • u/Dependent__Dapper • 1d ago
I need to obtain a specific Science Waffle or Cone. The way these work is that they pick 2/3 random effects from 84/109 respectively. I can save and reload the game to reload, which takes around 20 seconds. I need to get two specific effects, how long is this expected to take?
Waffle: 2 effects, both need to be perfect. 84 to choose from. (No repeats)
Cone: 3 effects, only two need to be perfect, third is irrelevant. 109 to choose from. (No repeats)