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And they said math has no real world applications
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I don't mean how big people's homes must be, but rather if you could take all the space required to create the food, sustainably provide water, etc. could be put in one square (provided this square could have multiple biomes existing at once), how large would it's area be to sustain one person in perpetuity (maybe hand waving things like soil erosion if necessary).
This is assuming a standard American's amount of affluence and resource use eating their normal diets and consuming products and whatnot as usual.
So, in a room of 5m x 5m x 5m (125m²) in volume.
What's the wireless water transfer rate if you put a humidifier and a dehumidifier in running at the same? Assuming the following:
Situation A: Temperature is 25C and humidity before start is 0%.
Situation B: Temperature is 25C and humidity before start is 50%.
This is not homework, just a problem i encounter while doing a game of ttrpg
I have 3 six-sides dices, all normal. <A>. I roll them with the following rules:
If the result is 8 or lower (<=8): It’s a failure
If the result is between 9 and 16 (9<=3d6<=16): I reroll (goes to <A>)
If the result is above 16 (17<=): It’s a success
All rolls will only end when it’s a success or failure. So, what is the chance of a success?
Many thanks
If the image below is true, what was the cost of groceries 18 months ago?
I know that trees produce oxygen. So if suddenly all "air" or oxygen was to disappear entirely, all at once. How long until the level would return back to normal. Years? Seconds?
Bonus question -- if its fast enough, could we survive while we wait for the oxygen to increase back?
Thank you in advance.
So, a naive Redditor commented on a post about the recent photo of Saturn's moon from the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST). I responded, they rebutted, then I did some number crunching.
Could one of you fine folks checks my math and make sure I'm not making an ass of myself?
If this is just the force equation, I'm going to feel stupid. But I don't remember a lot of the theory behind it anymore or have any frame of reference for what a given amount of Newtons feels like, so extra thanks if you can help me out there!
I know this is strategy gets mentioned alot, but i saw my online casino has a max bet of $5000 on red/black. What if i bet $1 everytime, and double each time i lose until i win. The odds of me getting to $5000 that way are insanely low. So that means i would pretty much only win? or am i missing something?
So i randomly had the idea that i wanted to describe the pareto principle with the help of a function but i could not do it for whatever reason. I looked up if there is a function for it online and didn´t find one either. Afterwards i was wondering if ChatGPT could help me with my pursuit but the AI failed miserably. Now i am turning to the mathematicians of r/theydidthemath wondering if they have the answer that i have been longing for.
I at first thought it would be as easy as drawing the ice sheets twice as far south, but there are a lot of factors that complicate things, such as mountains, ocean currents, etc. I am curious, how far would the ice sheets extend in this scenario?
I saw this meme explaining the plan to level the state of Kansas perfectly flat; it got me thinking about expanding this feat of engineering. What would be needed to level not just Kansas, but ever state to its north and south in the same way? Hell, let's extend the leveling project to the eastern slopes of the Rocky Mountains in Montana, Wyoming, Colorado, and New Mexico! What would the logistics be, and how tall will our resulting Great American Cliff be? This is the true correct use for taxes.
They say the amount of males at tinder is 4x the amount of females.
Its possible to have a list of users with that pattern, where the median amount of matches an female have is equal to the median amount of matches a male have?
Show me a list of 20 users (16 male and 4 female) where this happens.
So I got into a little argument with someone over a triangular dress and he said they could be used as a tripod (2 corners of triangle + 1 leg) so when you fall over you don't (I hope you get the point there, drawing included). Which isn't true, because if you've got a triangle and you fall onto a flat side, it counts as 1 leg so it would be a bipod.
Now I'm wondering, aside from physics and everything (so just imagine it would be able to carry all the body weight and not bend or fall), would it indeed be possible to have a triangular dress (or one that looks like it) which works as a tripod? So if you fall over, you get 2 points on the ground + your leg, holding you up, instead of a flat side + your leg. It can be any form as long as it's a triangle from at least 1 side ( I guess?)
In the episode they get 4 motorbikes connected to one limb each of a body and then pull it apart. Is it possible?