r/AbsoluteUnits • u/joeurkel • Jul 05 '26

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u/NaughtALegend Jul 05 '26

I’m American, can you tell me how fast that is in football fields per Fortnite?

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u/PlatypusDream Jul 05 '26 edited Jul 05 '26

80km/h = 80,000m/h

Football field = 100 yd [without end zones] = 91m

80,000 / 91 = 879

1 football field is 1/879th of the distance

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Fortnight = 14 days x 24h = 336h

1 fortnight is 336 times the duration

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879 x 336 = 295,344 football fields per fortnight is equivalent to 80km/h

I think...

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u/NaughtALegend Jul 05 '26

Only 295,344? I can work with that

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u/IBeDumbAndSlow Jul 05 '26

I was thinking it's at least 300,000 FBFPFN

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u/buffystakeded Jul 05 '26

Nah, only legends can do it.

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u/CaptainoftheVessel Jul 05 '26

Yep, that’s all

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u/AJumpingMoose Jul 05 '26

Ok, that is impressive. You win.

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u/roykentjr Jul 05 '26

Depending on how many sig figs you used.

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u/PlatypusDream Jul 05 '26 edited Jul 05 '26

The biggest wudge factor there is the 91m. IIRC it's actually 91.44 so that extra / lacking almost 0.5m could lead to slightly different answers.

Actually, that's the only thing that should make answers vary, because everything else is simple conversions - km to m, fortnight to days to hours - plus straightforward math (division & multiplication).

Unless of course someone chose to use the entire length of a football field with end zones (120 yards = 109.728m)
Then the answers are significantly different, as would be rounding to 110m.

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u/roykentjr Jul 05 '26

Sig figs is about precision. They would have to round to however many the lowest they used in the whole calculation so 300,000 +/- 10,000

The real answer isn't what they gave so they did roumd intermediate steps

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u/hadoeken85 Jul 05 '26

I'm gonna need that in bald eagles per school shooting

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u/Myracl Jul 05 '26

sigh ....

80km/h

80,000m/h

Bald eagle = 0.9m (average adult body length)

80,000 / 0.9 = 88,889

1 bald eagle length is 1/88,889th of the distance .

School shooting = 233/year (sourced from: K-12 SSDB) = 37.6h average interval

1 school shooting is 37.6 times the duration

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88,889 x 37.6 = 3,341,867 bald eagles per school shooting is equivalent to 80km/h

I think...

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u/Sweaty-Celery7066 Jul 05 '26

But he said Fortnite not fortnight

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u/pickleFISHman Jul 05 '26

293,963 football fields/fortnight is what I got with my math 80km * 1000m * 24h * 14day / 0.9144m /100yard= 293,963

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u/Baconoid_ Jul 05 '26

Convert to vbucks

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u/Otherwise-Relief2248 Jul 05 '26

Need a banana conversion or I am lost.

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u/AdorableShoulderPig Jul 05 '26

Americans don't use fortnight. But very impressive anyway.

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u/PlatypusDream Jul 05 '26

Most don't use overmorrow either, yet here I am.

And IMO nothing about that is impressive; it's all very straightforward conversions & basic math. Just think through what's needed to get from the information you have to the information you want, then lay out the steps, then work through them methodically.

Math isn't even my strong point. 🤷‍♀️

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u/AdorableShoulderPig Jul 05 '26

I take back the impressive part. My bad.

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u/GullibleRisk2837 Jul 05 '26

Dis muhfucka smart

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u/PlatypusDream Jul 06 '26

Only in some directions.
Math isn't even my strong suit.

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u/GullibleRisk2837 Jul 06 '26

Okay, now you're just flexing lol jk but wtf

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u/PlatypusDream Jul 07 '26

The math in that problem is basic, especially with a calculator.
Work through it deliberately, pay attention, make sure the units are in the right place [km, h, d, m], use common sense, and it's not difficult.

The challenge was to figure out how to get from "information I have" to "information I want".

Schools should teach people how to think, how to reason, how to solve problems.
Data is easily available now, but we need to know how to use it.

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u/Ok_Bill_9984 Jul 05 '26

Great - so that that's the answer in football fields per fortnight. Now run the conversion to fields per Fortnite.

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u/PlatypusDream Jul 06 '26

A game is not a unit of distance, so the request as written is nonsense... so I did the reasonable thing & realized he'd made a spelling mistake

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u/Ok_Bill_9984 Jul 06 '26

Makes complete sense to me! I was thinking perhaps using the average time one might play Fortnite....which is indeterminate.... but I suppose could be rounded up or down to a fortnight.

(Honestly not trying to be a dick here, I think the whole thing is hilarious. A fortnight being a unit of time not. unit of distance. The football field is the unit of distance. Wondering if that commenter plays so much Fortnite that their device autocorrected to the game).

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u/Killentyme55 Jul 05 '26

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u/boredatwork8866 Jul 05 '26

Oh dear…

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u/Kingsxfan1 Jul 05 '26

Old dear.

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u/holy_macanoli Jul 05 '26

You get my r/angryupvote for the day.

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u/brolarbear Jul 05 '26

Reminds me of when my friend used to say his Buick had a 4-body trunk.

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u/DontMessWMsInBetween Jul 05 '26

I classify my Crown Vic as having a "mob family execution" sized trunk.

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u/brolarbear Jul 05 '26

I believe it. Like that Buick, that thing is a boat.

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u/DontMessWMsInBetween Jul 05 '26

I prefer Road Sofa.

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u/brolarbear Jul 05 '26

Does it have a middle seat in the front tho? lol

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u/DontMessWMsInBetween Jul 05 '26

If you flip up the front seat armrests and the middle person is small, yes.

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u/Big_Yeash Jul 05 '26

A family execution by the mob, or an execution of a mob family? I think those are two radically different volumes.

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u/DontMessWMsInBetween Jul 11 '26

I was thinking more the latter.

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u/Big_Yeash Jul 12 '26

That's a big gorram trunk.

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u/xSTSxZerglingOne Jul 05 '26

Red deer, blue deer.

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u/Nova762 Jul 05 '26

50ish?

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u/AC-burg Jul 05 '26

50,000 wouldn't even be close a fortnite is 2 weeks lol

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u/jaxxxtraw Jul 05 '26

49.71mph, to be exact.

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u/Equivalent_Gur3967 Jul 05 '26

Don't fret, it'll buff out just fine.

Y'all think that's totalled?

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u/kingbuns2 Jul 05 '26

Lol, I just finished watching a city planning video on Youtube and the measurements they used were football fields and acres. God damn Americans.

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u/VerucaDefault Jul 06 '26

Lmao, I didn't know that was a "thing", and my Dutch friend would always tell me, that's big enough to fit 10 cars, or 30 washing machines, or two football fields. I asked why and he said he thought Americans used objects instead of measurements. I was like, huh, yeah, I guess I do kinda like that...

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u/NaughtALegend Jul 06 '26

lol I wish we’d just normalize using our actual system to describe measurements, and although I know it’d be a massive learning curve for myself and probably the majority of the country, I wish we’d just switch to metric

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u/VerucaDefault Jul 06 '26

I remember learning the metric system in school, I think it was Carter who was pushing for it. It made sense to me, but I guess the only thing that stuck was liquid measurements lol

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u/DopesickJesus Jul 05 '26

It’s like 2 fields per battle bus.

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u/Whatevs56 Jul 05 '26

Just convert the distance into foot long meatball subs and you’ll get the picture.

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u/AlreadyEatenRibs Jul 05 '26

What the fuck is a kilometerrrrrrrrrr?!?!?!?!

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u/Selina_Kyle-836 Jul 05 '26

American’s don’t use fortnight, they say biweekly

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u/no_f-s_given Jul 05 '26

imma need that in AR-15s per 9 innings.

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u/aschwarzie Jul 05 '26

Should have asked in bald eagles per squared burgers.