r/theydidthemath • • 3h ago

If 1 Reddit moderator can ruin 1 great post in 5 minutes, and every additional moderator doubles the rate of destruction, how many moderators would it take to remove every post made on reddit at all times? [request]

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r/theydidthemath • • 20h ago

[Request] How much environmental damage have all the damaged ships caused so far in the Strait of Hormuz?

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r/theydidthemath • • 11h ago

[Request], how much does this weigh?

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r/theydidthemath • • 20h ago

[Request] What are the odds of the white House press secretaries' first initials spelling out "SS, KKK" by pure coincidence?

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r/theydidthemath • • 6h ago

[Request] Fart in the ocean

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Genuinely curious what is the max depth at which a fart made in the ocean can still reach the surface šŸ˜…

Is that even calculable ?


r/theydidthemath • • 3h ago

[Request] How much does a smart trainer heat up after an hour of use.

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You cycle on it for an hour at 200W.
Flywheel weight 5kg, whole system 15kg.
Room temperature : 25C

What percentage of your power gets converted into heat?
Is most of it going into the flywheel/magnets surrounding it?

How would covering the trainer with an insulated box affect its cooling potential and how much would that increase its temperature.


r/theydidthemath • • 6h ago

[Request] What is the least number of people that need to believe Elon Musk's net worth is zero for it to actually become that?

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r/theydidthemath • • 11h ago

[Request] If this was real, how powerful would this be?

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r/theydidthemath • • 14h ago

[Request] How dense would your muscles have to be to lift 10 tons, and would that be dense enough to stop bullets? Should Spider-Man be bulletproof?

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I saw a question on quora and I wasn't satisfied with the answers.

How is Spider-Man not bulletproof seeing that he lift hundreds of tons in the comics? Wouldn’t his muscles, bones and skin be strong enough to take bullets since he can lift so much weight?

So with this in mind let's add another variable. Let's say he has the figure and body of a fit 20 year old at 180 lbs (5'10"). How much more dense would he need to be to lift 10 tons?

Would he look like a 180 pounder but weigh 800 lbs?

And would that muscle density be able to stop a standard 9 mm round?

Edit: Spider-Man should weigh at least 4 tons, probably more! So that spider bite probably made his physiology work hydraulicly as well!


r/theydidthemath • • 13h ago

[REQUEST] Making a Logography that is backed by math.. but I haven't yet quantified how BIG it really is..

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r/theydidthemath • • 9h ago

[self] Rikki is by far the most powerfull

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r/theydidthemath • • 16h ago

[Request] Out of date nukes

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Watching some Fallout 4 gameplay.

After 200 years would the half-life of the nuclear materials inside of nukes become non-fissionable?


r/theydidthemath • • 13h ago

How many frames per second would one-piece x22000 speed up version have? [Request]

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r/theydidthemath • • 5h ago

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[ Removed by Reddit on account of violating the content policy. ]


r/theydidthemath • • 10h ago

How far would you have theoretically been able to see the old World Trade Center (Twin towers)? [Request]

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My answer was about 72.7km, or about 45.2 miles, for the South Tower, and this takes into account New York's rough distance from the Earths center: but this doesn't take into account atmospheric effects. How far would you have been able to see the towers once you consider Earths atmosphere?


r/theydidthemath • • 10h ago

[request] paint purchased

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Can you guys figure out some impressive milestones when calculating how much paint has been purchased in the last year. Five gallon buckets stacked on top
Of each other with the lid on. Would love to see building height comparisons


r/theydidthemath • • 13h ago

[Request] How much money you figure RuPaul's Drag Race has given out over the years?

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r/theydidthemath • • 12h ago

[Request] In the movie Passengers would the rest of the crew have enough food after the two main characters ate their fill for 90 years prior to any of them waking up?

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There are 5k passengers and 258 crew members in the ship. The voyage was to be 120 years total with 4 months prior to landing that the passengers were to be woken up. The main 2 main characters wake up about 90 years ahead of schedule.

They were about early to mid 30s it seemed. If they lived to age 80, how much of the ship's food did they likely eat if the ship had enough food stored for 5k passengers to last about 4 months, maybe 5. Both of them together gave them access to the full spectrum of food.

Would they have made a large enough dent by the end that when the crew did wake up there would have to be some tighter rationing or maybe even not enough food at all?


r/theydidthemath • • 18h ago

[request] Avengers Endgame win probability

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So in Endgame, Dr Strange looks into 14,000,605 universes and finds that they only win one. Let’s assume this ratio is representative of the wider multiverse. But there are infinitely many universes. And scaling up that ratio to infinity, both possibilities are countable infinity, right? So does that mean they had a 50 50 shot at winning?


r/theydidthemath • • 9h ago

[Meta] Math in Future education

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To begin with, let me remind you that mathematics is not a science fortunately and that it is perhaps one of the largest organized, consistent symbolic formal systems for developing something: maybe intellect, maybe a certain form of thinking, maybe someone understands more clearly what exactly mathematics develops and can tell us about it.

And whatever it develops in us, there may immediately be a temptation to say functionally: well, then mathematics is needed precisely for developing this, Robert Wide.

The difficulty is that although there are interesting things in it, such as topology, or interesting theorems and models, and especially what seems important is the economic, technological, and research contribution of mathematics,

And yet it seems that this formal system stalls a person and makes it harder for him to think outside this formal system. Of course, one can say this about logic too, and about their similarity, and in general about any old systems of thought or let us call them closed or ā€œcontrollingā€ ones. To some, dialectics may also seem like this, though to a lesser degree, and it is precisely dialectics that sets the task of sublating contradiction and arriving at generalization and understanding, that is, in an ethical sense it is a more encompassing system of cognition in the sense of its capacity — though often in verbal form to include something else and incomprehensible in its understanding. And if we abstract from formal dialectics, if you have ever heard these expositions, then the ethical idea and, as it were, real dialectics in full non-contradictoriness and some communication, for example as metamodernism, is the same dialectics or synthesis between sincerity and so-called postmodernity or irony.

Dialectics is still an example, not a proposed answer. Although it could perhaps be one of those considered.

Returning to mathematics. Despite its outstanding economic, technological, research possibilities and achievements, and as a result also social and political ones… it still remains rather abstract. One can say that it is the most complex, or one of the most complex, games of the mind, or games within the mind, or separate games within the mind. But for the mind itself this seems like something akin to sophistry or magic, though a very useful one. Or one can say that it is a magical system, or one of the magical systems of this world. But it is almost always something very abstract: it seems to me that this is often said about philosophers too, by those who do not delve deeply into philosophy; but those who do delve in, on the other hand, can understand that we often reflect on the most important questions or phenomena that we can feel or think. As far as I understand and it is not known how much the answers may still differ mathematics is a system of ultimate formal complexity, or of ultimate complexity for thought in general, since in one way or another what we formulate as philosophers often, though perhaps difficult, has a clearer representation of reality, even if it is Lacan’s Borromean rings. In the sense that philosophy, apart from again sophistry, usually does not strive to become complicated simply for the sake of complication because why? It seems that a person, after this stage of formal logic, can also learn other possibilities of thinking. But in mathematics, complexity and possibly even not necessarily, but possibly the degree of abstraction seems literally the quintessence of content. On the other hand, of course, this may also be good. In the sense of ultimate complexity, ultimate constructiveness, ultimate abstraction, in the sense that we as a culture have some content, some achievements that we may still have to comprehend, if some of them can be so complex that there are literally 400 pages of formulas of explanation.

But, like, why?

And returning to what we were talking about, this seems like ultimate sophistry or thinking in idle, in the sense for thought itself and for man, although culturally it brings enormous social results: both economics and technology and research and efficiency.

And even if we assume that mathematics is integral thinking rather than specific thinking, then although it is clear why mathematics should be developed: so that there can be a further possibility of development…

What for, and what from mathematics, and should it and it or they even be present in education?

Because even if we may have grounds to think so but even if mathematics is connected with integral, that is, general thinking, that is, as it were, some generalized function of it, the mathematicality of education then creates a situation in which a person tries to wipe the sofa with a processor without imagining what a sofa is.

And if not, and mathematics is more specific thinking, that is, in the sense that it also remains there and in a constant submetacognitive state: in the sense that it fundamentally cannot leave the box and its language and its formality or formalization… then such thinking is good for producing human-computers useful for working with ordinary computers, for example in a bank or somewhere else. As a result, man has, as it were, given his brain to mathematics, and how is he supposed to live further? Well, that is, then perhaps also the market, where this mathematized brain may be valued higher than the self-esteem or self-understanding of such a person, and so the puzzle comes together: successful recruiting into a successful company.

I will say right away that simply ā€œprogressive studies,ā€ which may even be not thinking but to some extent dogmatic propaganda or propaganda at the expense of education hours, trying to lean on Marxism or performatism according to Butler, are, as it were… Well, people can learn something valuable, but on the whole it seems that this is simply the disintegration of education, or rather almost its absence, or its replacement by propaganda so that in an economic-political sense these people could be ever more perfect agents of this very propaganda, possibly even without fully understanding it. And how lucky we are that we can look at this from the outside, unlike the people and economies that this ā€œprogressiveā€ propaganda may further repress. And the main complaint against it is probably economic, because a society simply without technical specialties loses economic opportunities; only oligarchs remain, and they would most quickly move to a new place. And in a universal human sense, this is potentially the next target and problem for the next intellectual stratum that will try to do something about this repressiveness. If, in general, there will be anyone left to do anything there.

In general, why was this clarification about ā€œprogressiveā€ or agenda-driven education? So that this question is not in support of that very agenda, and, as it were, we understand in advance some of the existing difficulties there and have described them.

And still, the question: is mathematics needed? And such mathematized, formalized thinking — and then we are surprised by further formalizations and the resulting difficulties, such as bureaucracy and media simplification and corruption in many senses.

Additionally:

Maybe the form of my question is a bit of Soviet thinking or a way of thinking about something, and if you understand another or other better ways of asking or thinking about this, you can say so.


r/theydidthemath • • 19h ago

[Request] How much stellar material is ejecting from the surface, here?

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r/theydidthemath • • 2h ago

How much would it cost to open up a fully functional, and fully staffed Burger King on the surface of the Moon? How much would you have to charge per whopper to make a profit? [request]

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r/theydidthemath • • 7h ago

[Request] in every probability case, like a speed of something decreases then the force that causes it slow might have become fast

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Like

f(speed) = kx+x(speed)

Where k is the opposing a quantity x

And this directly affects the x(speed)

So, speed is transmitting


r/theydidthemath • • 20h ago

How long before this hypothetical goes very bad? [Request]

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r/theydidthemath • • 16h ago

[Request] What would be the population density of Mars if all of the people on Earth suddenly teleported to the red planet homogenously, meaning every person is spaced equally? Give the answer in terms of population density of a country today

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