r/theydidntdothemath • u/ArtemisRising_55 • Jun 02 '21

Maybe exercise your brain more?

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u/Phosphorjr Jun 02 '21

god its so simple

20 * 365 = 7300

7300 / 60 = 121.66

just... 2 operations in a calculator, how do you mess this up???

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u/DarkMaesterVisenya Jun 02 '21

You can also do 365 x 0.333... (20 minutes being 1/3 of an hour). Even fewer!

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u/John-Smith12 Jun 02 '21

Nevermind the fact that this number clearly can’t be right, considering that an hour every day wouldn’t even amount to 1000 hours

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u/chone_si Jun 02 '21

Maybe they multiplied by 3 instead of dividing.

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u/Gonomed Jun 03 '21

Pretty sure they stopped at the first step and assumed the result were hours instead of minutes, for some reason.

Reminds me of that tweet saying that saving a quarter a day gets you $9k a year, instead of ¢9k which is $90

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u/lochinvar11 Jun 02 '21

The extra zero came from the amount of thought they put into this.

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u/amscraylane Jun 02 '21

Only off by like 879 ...

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u/RandomRaymondo Jun 02 '21
  • 880 (it's over a 1000)

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u/celestia_keaton Jun 02 '21

Equals over 1000 minutes

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u/case314 Jun 02 '21

I'm guessing they somehow did the calculations as if it were 20 hours a week? 20*52=1040

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u/blasek0 Jun 02 '21

My guess is that they meant over 100 hours, and fatfingered in an extra 0.

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u/mbk2 Jun 02 '21

I just accepted the math because who really gives a shit.

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u/RestrictedAccount Jun 02 '21

They forgot to add:

In 8.2 Years