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Re:What has a 1 in a million chance? by Toutouxc on Monday January 08, 2024 @04:03AM (#38909660)
> If we guess a President will serve on average about 6 years, then 1 in 6 times 4.0 million = 24 million babies will someday be President.

This sentence desperately needs parentheses. Took me five minutes to parse correctly.

Re:What has a 1 in a million chance? by Sebb767 on Monday January 08, 2024 @04:51AM (#38909968)
To save some time for the rest of us:

> If we guess a President will serve on average about 6 years, then [1 in (6 times 4.0 million =) 24 million] babies will someday be President.

Re:What has a 1 in a million chance? by esrauch on Monday January 08, 2024 @06:23AM (#38910563)
I prefer the interpretation of an ominous prediction that the presidency will be filled by 24 million babies someday soon.

Switzerland does have a committee of 7 people as president, only a small step from that to 24 million babies.

Re:What has a 1 in a million chance? by egeozcan on Monday January 08, 2024 @07:16AM (#38910902)
Of course it's a very small step to make babies amounting to 3 times the current population of Switzerland (so assuming roughly a 50/50 female/male divide, everyone needs to make 6 babies on average, in the same year so they will still all be babies when the last one is born? that's probably impossible for the females but we are already way into the science-fiction category) and put them all in a committee.

The more I think about this, the funnier and more complicated this gets.

Re:What has a 1 in a million chance? by column on Monday January 08, 2024 @08:40AM (#38911746)
What do you mean, "that's *probably* impossible" to make 6 babies from the same mother in a single year? Takes about 9 months to output a human, you know?
Re:What has a 1 in a million chance? by CapitalistCartr on Monday January 08, 2024 @09:04AM (#38912043)
Ha! Nine women can have that baby in one month; management says so.
Re:What has a 1 in a million chance? by jrm415 on Monday January 08, 2024 @10:18AM (#38913153)
It’s not impossible to have sextuplets.

It’s probably impossible for a population to average that rate though.

Re:What has a 1 in a million chance? by kgwgk on Monday January 08, 2024 @09:35AM (#38912477)
> Takes about 9 months to output a human, you know?

It can also be done months faster getting multiple humans though.

Re:What has a 1 in a million chance? by atq2119 on Tuesday January 09, 2024 @12:11AM (#38922586)
Twins and larger multiples are a thing...
Re:What has a 1 in a million chance? by egeozcan on Wednesday January 10, 2024 @04:52AM (#38938353)
> Takes about 9 months to output a human

Takes about 9 months to output N humans where N approaches to 1 on large averages as even twin births are like 1.2 percent.

Also many females cannot be pregnant again for a while after giving birth, even if we had sped up the pregnancy.

To average 6 babies, we need something like giving birth to triplets every 5 months in average, which improbable even if we had the technology, will and the economics that could support this.

But you know, "improbable" is such a funny word, especially out of context :)

Re:What has a 1 in a million chance? by JBiserkov on Monday January 08, 2024 @06:55AM (#38910749)
The intelligence of current generation of "AI" has been compared to a baby's, so... ;-)
Re:What has a 1 in a million chance? by __MatrixMan__ on Monday January 08, 2024 @08:56AM (#38911936)
I was once informed that everybody has eaten at least eight spiders in their sleep. Another person in the same car confidently confirmed:

> It's true, if you're on you deathbed and you've only eaten one spider seven more come along and jump right in there at that last second.

I figured it was that sort of reasoning that got us to 24 million babies.

Re:What has a 1 in a million chance? by Bluem00 on Monday January 08, 2024 @09:08AM (#38912096)
This particular "fact" actually has a known source. Someone made it up as an example of the kinds of things people will believe: https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/swallow-spiders/
Re:What has a 1 in a million chance? by rbits on Monday January 08, 2024 @05:57AM (#38910401)
I just assumed they had a mini stroke, I didn't realise there was a way for that to make sense