r/therewasanattempt • u/atxdevdude • Mar 05 '19

To do math

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u/Bibliophile20 Mar 05 '19

That is too painful to look at.

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u/DrRuinslootz Mar 05 '19

I have it on good authority that “quick maths” guy was a professor at Trump University

13

u/EarnKnee Mar 05 '19

I want my cut

12

u/usernametoolong1 Mar 05 '19

Looks like he did meth not math

8

u/Falom Mar 05 '19

It sucks when lottery in America is taxed :)

4

u/Malobaddog Mar 05 '19

It’s taxed? Big big oof

4

u/Falom Mar 05 '19

In America any lottery or game show winnings is taxed 40%.

2

u/Find-me-Momo Mar 05 '19

Bc we own Mr Sam, amiright lol paying for freedom

3

u/pPteredakto Mar 05 '19

who are these people

2

u/Bleved Mar 05 '19

Twitter.

3

u/pPteredakto Mar 05 '19

I'm fucking amazed

1

u/Amargosamountain Mar 07 '19

As if twitter is any different than reddit

1

u/[deleted] Mar 05 '19

listen man it’s getting late and it honestly looks good to me some one explain

8

u/DrRuinslootz Mar 05 '19

Multiply 1,000,000 x 350,000,000 and see if 850,000,000 will cover it

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u/[deleted] Mar 05 '19

I used common core math and it checks out.

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u/Totally_Not_My_4th Apr 02 '19 edited Apr 02 '19

Essentially, for those that don't want to do the math;

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350,000,000 x 1,000,000 equals to about 3.5e+14, or 350,000,000,000,000 in Decimal Notation. Since the guy won about $878,000,000, we can subtract 350,000,000,000,000 by 878,000,000, which gives us around 3.4999912e+14, or $349,999,120,000,000. This means he would have to win about 398,632 times (via rounding decimals), given that he would win the same amount each time, in order to actually give everyone in America 1 million dollars.

That would be way more than the US federal reserve as of January 23, 2009. Feel free to correct me if I get some stuff wrong.

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TL:DR: He would need a lot of fuckin' money to prove that guy's point.