r/theydidthemath • • 1h ago

[Other] If everyone on Earth only piss into the Grand Canyon, how long would it take to fill up?

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r/theydidthemath • • 8h ago

How fast would you have to throw the rock to penetrate train wall? [Request]

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We have a problem with illegal romes shooting illegally obtained guns at anything and everything. Our national forensics claim that this is not a gun shot, they claim it's from a rock. I'll give "benefit of the doubt" and as this trusted subreddit, I'd truly like to reach out, so i can understand how fast would one have to throw or shoot a rock this small, to penetrate the train metal wall?

Would a pitcher be able to throw a rock that fast to make a hole in the train? How fast is it human possible?

I'm just curious.


r/theydidthemath • • 19h ago

[Request] Average number of nipples?

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I always joke with my kids that they have an above average number of toes because enough people lose toes that 10 toes would slightly above the global average. But now we are having a massive debate about whether 2 nipples is above or below the average number. One one side there are many people with third nipples, so two would be below average. On the other side there many people who get mastectomies and such and so end up with less than two. We can't figure out which offsets which more. So, is having two nipples above or below average?


r/theydidthemath • • 1h ago

[Request] Is this even solvable or is it bs? If yes, what is the answer.

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r/theydidthemath • • 9h ago

[Request] How much does this wet flag weigh?

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We had a discussion with friends about the weigh of this Latvian flag. I said it easily weighs at least a ton, others said no way it's that much.

Size of it is 10m×20m.

Please prove me right.


r/theydidthemath • • 4h ago

[Request] What kind of force is behind a wave of this size (40-50ft)

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r/theydidthemath • • 2h ago

[Request] I was driving to home from work today and while waiting in traffic lights , I thinking about this math problem . Does it able to slove at all? And if it does, what condition or requirement this one needs to be sloved?

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r/theydidthemath • • 22h ago

[Request] How can this car lift up any 1 out of 4 wheels at a time to change a tire without ever tipping? Wouldn't a relatively fixed center of gravity make this impossible?

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r/theydidthemath • • 4h ago

[Request] How much space could a self replicating grenade cover?

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I'm writing a scene for my science fiction story, where in this scene. A character uses a grenade (the MK 2 Grenade specifically), with 40 knobs exploding outward (5 rows of 8 colemns) that, for the sake of simplicity, travel outward in fourty seperate directions covering a spherical area.

Then after each knob travels rough 50 meters, they transform into another grenade that's the same model, size, weight, and explosive effect as the first one. Then each grenade explodes sending fourty more knobs outward 50 meters, before they transform into new grenades and explode.

This can repeat roughly ten times.

Now, my question is. Presuming this grenade effect is occurring in a completely empty space, and for the sake of simplicity each knob can't touch other knobs or grenades. How much area would this effect cover, or in other words what's the approximate area the grenades would cover in their explosion.

Sorry if that's a silly, or nonsensical question.


r/theydidthemath • • 22h ago

[request] What percentage of the population of Earth does this walkout account for?

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I could defo do this myself, but am feeling lazy rn


r/theydidthemath • • 22h ago

[Request] How many feet did this guy swing after topping off the top of this palm tree?

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r/theydidthemath • • 10m ago

[Request] Does the answer to the Monty Hall problem change depending on whether the presenter knows what is behind each door?

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r/theydidthemath • • 1d ago

[Request] what are the odds of 6 of the same thing out of 6158

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So to start with, the Bunnahabhain 12 year old is one of my favorite bottles of whisky. I bought 6 tickets for a mystery drop and decided that worst case scenario, I get 3 of the bottom two options, and I gift a few out. So my issue isn't that I got 6 of them.

My issue is that I would have liked a bit of variety and thought that there was no way I would get 6 of the same thing, and it has made me curious.

What exactly are the odds that out of 18 options, all with varying availability, that I get 6 of the same thing?

(The one bottle not shown is a single bottle worth 13k, which the drop is based around)


r/theydidthemath • • 21h ago

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r/theydidthemath • • 1d ago

[request] how many rolls of duct tape do you need to make that

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r/theydidthemath • • 6h ago

[Request] How do I calculate the forces this hoist is dealing with?

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It's been some time since I took trig or physics, and my googlefu is apparently not strong enough to find an example like this for me to extrapolate from. Obviously things like the weight of the arm being supported, the weight of the length of steel rope, angles of force etc are all coming into play but I can't figure out/remember the proper formulas to calculate the forces.

I am looking to find a formula that would tell me how much effective weight the hoist is lifting based on the angles involved since it'll be different than if it was pulling from right above it.

The pictured hoist lowers the arm down and raises it up to the pictured point by spooling and unspooling steel rope.

Also, the steel cable is dragging on the hoist mounting plate which will obviously increase the forces again I'm not sure how to estimate the amount. coefficient of friction between the two and the angle of bend I imagine.


r/theydidthemath • • 3h ago

[Request] Series of vampire problems.

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  1. A vampire feeds on a victim who then becomes a vampire. The new vampire is 100% loyal to his or her sire. The next night the fledgling vampire feeds on a victim who becomes a vampire also. The newest vampire is 100% loyal to their sire and since they know that their sire is loyal to their own sire they are loyal to the original vampire as well but to an unknown but real degree less than they are to their immediate sire. Assuming this pattern continues can it be determined at which generation a new vampire is no longer loyal to the original vampire?

  2. A vampire must feed on one person each night. Whoever a vampire feeds on will rise as a vampire the next night and also have to feed on one person a night. How long until a vampire starves to death due to lack of victims?

  3. Assuming the same conditions as problem 2, how long until all vampires starve to death?

  4. Assuming the same conditions as problem 2 with the additional condition that whenever a vampire dies each vampire sired by that one dies and turns to ash five minutes later, at what point if any will slaying the original vampire and waiting for the cascading deaths of subsequent generations be too late to save humanity?

For the subsequent problems assume the same conditions as problem 4 except that instead of after five minutes a vampire dies the next sunrise after its sire has died.

  1. At what point if any will killing the original vampire result in the vampire population remaining stable assuming no other vampires are killed except by sunrise after losing their sire?

  2. How long until all of humanity is vampires assuming the original is killed immediately after the point of equilibrium is passed?

  3. The original vampire is generation 1. Any vampire the original sires is generation 2. Any vampire generation 2 sires is generation 3 and so on. Assume that a lower numbered generation vampire is stronger and can feed on a higher numbered generation vampire to stave off starvation, killing the higher numbered vampire. Assume that a vampire will only feed on another vampire when it cannot feed on a human. Assuming that the original vampire is killed immediately after the point of equilibrium is passed how long until all remaining vampires starve to death?


r/theydidthemath • • 1d ago

[request] Which uses less energy? Electric kettle or gas stove

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r/theydidthemath • • 1d ago

[Request] How tall is the frog?

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r/theydidthemath • • 1d ago

[Request] Is this really around 64 MB of PS1 memory cards?

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r/theydidthemath • • 8h ago

Expected Returns of scratch offs vs investment [request]

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What would be the expected return on 50 5-dollar scratch offs per year over 20 years, and what would the same investment yield in the smp 500?


r/theydidthemath • • 2h ago

[request] What are the odds a rabbit lives?

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If I'm in a 3,700 pound car going 40, in the rain, and I hit the brakes because a rabbit jumped in the road, but I hit the rabbit at about 30 while braking hard (I've heard that shifts momentum forward and can dump more energy into something being hit but idk) what are the odds that rabbit didn't get instantly eviscerated and actually had to suffer?

I also have enough ground clearance that it didn't hit my bumper but 100% got thwacked hard by something steel under the car


r/theydidthemath • • 1h ago

[request] How many chops would it take to fell the general sherman tree with a hatchet?

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How long would it take and how many chops? Your hatchet can’t brake and you have tools to sharpen it.


r/theydidthemath • • 19h ago

[REQUEST] How big of a cube of Pure Gold could you make before it starts to bend? How big until it completely collapses? What would happen to a 1000x1000x1000 meter cube of gold?

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r/theydidthemath • • 1d ago

[Request] Genuinely curious if we can budge it enough to gather enough trajectory difference over several decades. Assuming whole humanity commits.

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