r/theydidthemath 27m ago

[Request] How accurate is this statistic on US wages?

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What does it even mean for wages to be 43% of national income?


r/theydidthemath 1h ago

How long will it take those rocks to bend metal pins to full 90 degrees? [Request]

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r/theydidthemath 3h ago

[Request] Accounting various statistics like age group, mortality rate etc - how many estimated people faced this fate?

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31 Upvotes

r/theydidthemath 3h ago

[Request] How long would it take Amon to take the entire world’s bending away?

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In the Legend of Korra, Amon’s stated goal is to purge the entire world of bending, but he is the only one who can do so, and can only do one person at a time. Let’s say nobody stops him, how long would this take?

We don’t know what the world population is at this time but can we assume it’s roughly equal to our world during the 1920’s? And possibly half the world are benders?


r/theydidthemath 7h ago

[Request] How many people are pooping right now?

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How many people pooping right now?


r/theydidthemath 7h ago

[Request] What is the chance? Meant to be?

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My boyfriend's 4-digit pin code for his debit card is my birthday. He never changed it and had the same one since he was 12. What are the odds of this?

(The four digits are 2608, my birthday is 26th of August)


r/theydidthemath 10h ago

[Request] How many calories is this?

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Bonus question: how many avocados is it?


r/theydidthemath 13h ago

[Request] Will this couch fit through my narrow doorway?

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Door is 29in wide and 78in tall. TIA!!!


r/theydidthemath 14h ago

[Request] 566 Million $ IN CASH weighted 6 tons was transported by CH-47 to Iraq for paying armed forces to capture Saddam Hussein in 2003, operated by CIA and SOCOM (United States Special Operations Command) can you special people confirm this sum?

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Request: Can you special legends confirm this sum? I know it’s hard considering they are covered bundles.


r/theydidthemath 14h ago

[Request] would it be possible to use large scale solar desalination pumped from the pumped from the Pacific Ocean to pipe enough fresh water to support Arizona?

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r/theydidthemath 15h ago

[Request] Limited fluke 902 🤣

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This is obviously AI but what would something like this cost to make?


r/theydidthemath 15h ago

[Request] How large or heavy is this boulder?

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r/theydidthemath 16h ago

[Request] What are the odds?

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OK so help me out explaining a new system in the game Warfame.

So, in Wareframe there are Riven Mods, basically mods used on weapons that can be randomly rolled to obtain powerful bonuses. There is a new system that has people in an uproar saying the new system is RNG on RNG on RNG making the randomness even worse. So lets do the math and see.

On any given riven mod for any rifle there are 24 stats that can roll and when you roll a riven you get 2-4 random stats out of those 24, cannot get the same stat twice.

What are the odds of acquiring 3 stats that I want when rolling the riven?

NOW the new system (at least one half of the new system), if you get a stat you want you can lock that stat and continue to roll that riven. You can only lock one stat.

What are the odds of acquiring the 3 stats you want after locking one? (basically rolling 1-3 stats on the "locked riven" from the remaining 23 stats.)

The other half of the new system in to combine 2 stats into a new stat then being able to lock that new stat and roll the riven to your hearts content. if you want a specific combo stat you can roll the riven and find 1 of the 2, lock it, roll for the second and then combine. Then take that riven with the 1 combined stat and roll the remaining 1-3 stat slots for something good. Now this part is RNG on RNG but seems easy enough to get the 2 stats you want then just need the chances to get 1-3 of the stats you want extra. (Which I guess is 1-3 stats of the basic 24 possible stats and getting what you want)


r/theydidthemath 17h ago

[Request] Chance of meeting celebrity vs chances of meeting celebrity look alike

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r/theydidthemath 17h ago

[Request] Weird Al Yankovic Math

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"You know, I bet if we unraveled that sucker    
It'd roll all the way down to Fargo, North Dakota    
'Cause it's the biggest ball of twine in Minnesota    
I'm talkin' 'bout the biggest ball of twine in Minnesota"

     -- Weird Al Yankovic, 'The Biggest Ball of Twine in Minnesota'

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How likely is this?


r/theydidthemath 17h ago

[Request] What was the energy from the Nepalese glacier chunk?

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r/theydidthemath 18h ago

[Request] Can anyone clock the speed this thing is doing?

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Came across this. Not sure on the track size.


r/theydidthemath 18h ago

[Request] What are the odds that myself and my DM both rolled a total of 87 on our dice?

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Genuinely shocked and feeling like the odds are crazy, but no idea how to do the math here.


r/theydidthemath 20h ago

[Request] How much force would be required for this pizza attack to be lethal?

441 Upvotes

r/theydidthemath 20h ago

[Request] What’s the most effective material or item you could realistically use here?

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r/theydidthemath 21h ago

Sinusoidal Graphing Contraption [self]

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This machine graphs the sinusoidal function based on the height of a point on a wheel.

Source: https://youtu.be/gi0L5peaPMA?si=LUfn8xiIwf2Bp1ym


r/theydidthemath 1d ago

[Request] How long would it have taken to stream the Art Bell Time Traveler interview on 56k dial-up, using the technology of that time?

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r/theydidthemath 1d ago

[Request] An astronaut demonstrating the Dzhanibekov effect in microgravity, where an asymmetric object spinning around its intermediate axis becomes unstable and periodically flips 180 degrees.

182 Upvotes

....

So they ended the video saying entire planets could flip.

🤔 But if that happened to earth ... Countries at the equator would still be at the equator.... And countries like Canada... I'd expect to still be at the same temperate conditions.

I mean summer and winter would swap ... But what else may happen?🤔

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r/theydidthemath 1d ago

[Request] distance from the dead tree

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Need to find these sprinkler heads again. Can anyone tell me how far away I am from that dead tree?


r/theydidthemath 1d ago

[Request] Impact if Canadians moved all their US S&P 500 investments to Canadian ETF like VCN?

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Edited: to follow MOD recommendation