They Did The Math

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Community for examples and discussion of using maths to calculate things.

Academic, esoteric, and silly topics are all welcome, so long as the maths is sound!

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Eiffel Towers, Hulk Hogans and Epstien Files (discuss.tchncs.de)
submitted 4 months ago by nutbutter@discuss.tchncs.de to c/theydidthemath@mander.xyz
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Comment link - https://feddit.uk/comment/22940456

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@mikko did the math on their age (ani.social)
submitted 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) by zippy552@ani.social to c/theydidthemath@mander.xyz
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Yobasari calculates the impossibility on Big Think's energy arguments (feddit.org)
submitted 5 months ago by acockworkorange@mander.xyz to c/theydidthemath@mander.xyz
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The numbers are are also clearly fictive. Driving a car for 4 miles uses about half a liter of fuel. A liter of gasoline contains about 9kwh of energy meaning, that you would use about 4.5 kwh per half hour of streaming. So the servers would have to draw about 9 KW to serve a single person? That would be like 10 gaming PCs running at full power to serve one person. Are they animating the shows in real time? No compression algorithm is that inefficient and no hard drive uses that much energy.

edit: also they could never be profitable like that. Let's say you watch three hours per day. That would be 9kWx3hrsx30days=810kwh per month. Even if they only pay 5 cents a kWh that would still be over $40 per month just in electricity cost for one user.

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New algorithm finds the shortest path to any point in record time (www.earth.com)
submitted 5 months ago by Ludicrous0251@piefed.zip to c/theydidthemath@mander.xyz
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@Ephera calculates the number of ants per person (lemmy.world)
submitted 6 months ago by kindred@lemmy.dbzer0.com to c/theydidthemath@mander.xyz
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@bobs_monkey shows why dealers choose selling pot over minimum wage labor (lemmy.world)
submitted 7 months ago by kindred@lemmy.dbzer0.com to c/theydidthemath@mander.xyz
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They did the monster math* (lemmy.world)
submitted 11 months ago by MisterFrog@lemmy.world to c/theydidthemath@mander.xyz
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https://lemmy.world/comment/18176899

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They did the math: cost of LAPD (lemmy.blahaj.zone)
submitted 11 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) by acockworkorange@mander.xyz to c/theydidthemath@mander.xyz
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TDTM ... on where there is a point in space where the Moon and Earth appear the same size (lemmyverse.link)
submitted 1 year ago by AbnormalHumanBeing@lemmy.abnormalbeings.space to c/theydidthemath@mander.xyz
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They did the moth (i.redd.it)
submitted 1 year ago by acockworkorange@mander.xyz to c/theydidthemath@mander.xyz
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Community created in anticipation of the closure of lemm.ee (sh.itjust.works)
submitted 1 year ago by threelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.works to c/theydidthemath@mander.xyz
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!theydidthemath@lemm.ee was unmoderated, and lemm.ee is closing, so I decided to create this community on mander.xyz.