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Re:Decades-Old Graph Problem Yields to Amateur Mathematician by slx26 on Wednesday April 18, 2018 @03:58AM (#16865568)
there are more than 7 billion people in the world. every 4.2 seconds, we collectively live more than 100 years. there's a lot of clever-thinking time in a day, it's always nice to keep that in mind
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Re:Decades-Old Graph Problem Yields to Amateur Mathematician by ErikCorry on Wednesday April 18, 2018 @03:50PM (#16870505)
I guess that's technically true, since 931 years is more than 100 years.
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Re:Decades-Old Graph Problem Yields to Amateur Mathematician by slx26 on Thursday April 19, 2018 @02:18PM (#16878519)
yeah, sorry, that was a typo, it's 1000, not 100. I calculated it a while ago. now population estimations are around 7.61 billions, which is around 1014 years every 4.2 seconds. it's an impressive amount of time
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