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Re:Math Problems for children from 5 to 15 (2004) [pdf] by Koshkin on Monday July 19, 2021 @03:27PM (#27886386)
> 1 dog year is about 7 human years

This is the average; the correspondence is not linear...

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Re:Math Problems for children from 5 to 15 (2004) [pdf] by inamiyar on Monday July 19, 2021 @03:45PM (#27886565)
Probably true, but the point was that the daughter was capable of quick multiplication, the age of the dog was..decidedly a minor detail.
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Re:Math Problems for children from 5 to 15 (2004) [pdf] by whimsicalism on Monday July 19, 2021 @03:46PM (#27886570)
Classic HN
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Re:Math Problems for children from 5 to 15 (2004) [pdf] by MontyCarloHall on Monday July 19, 2021 @03:50PM (#27886599)
Parent comment belongs in the hall of fame right next to the classic "Dropbox is trivial—it’s just an FTP server under version control":

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8863

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Re:Math Problems for children from 5 to 15 (2004) [pdf] by ThePadawan on Monday July 19, 2021 @03:59PM (#27886685)
I see your "classic HN" and counter with a "I'm one of today's lucky 10000!".

I was taught the 7 years rule as a kid and only learned as an adult that it's an average, not true for all dog breeds.

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Re:Math Problems for children from 5 to 15 (2004) [pdf] by msrenee on Monday July 19, 2021 @04:11PM (#27886777)
It's also not really true for young dogs. A 1-year-old dog of most breeds is reproductively mature, whereas a 7-year-old human is not.
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