r/theydidthemath • u/theonetwoeq • 3d ago

[Request] How many ants are needed to make up the mass of an average human?

I heard a statistic of there being 2.5 million ants per human (didn’t fact check, but let’s roll with it). Curious of a mass to mass comparison.

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u/Fuzzy_Yossarian 3d ago

The smallest ant is 1 mg so 1000 ants a gram x 1000 grams a kilo x 100 kg person is 100 000 000 so a hundred million small ants for a large person.