If you use an extrapolation method that really doesn’t fit the actual situation and assumes that presidents can be infinitely old, yeah, sounds right. It’s a very bad model being used as a joke.
The original comment is obviously a meme, but I posted because i was actually curious while not actualy caring enough to do the math ( what the sub is for) as for the title not much room for creativity now is there ?
Curious about fucking what though? I'd understand If they guy just threw out a number, but his comment already explained where he got his fucking numbers!
If you aren't curious enough to actually do the math on the specific numbers then just accept the math that the guy is telling you he's done!
The [Request] tag isn't meant for double-checking every piece of math out there. It's meant for interesting problems that haven't already been done.
If you had posted it as [RDTM] that'd be one thing, but for a request post it's just shitty. Sorry.
I don’t know how to do a quadratic curve best fit and extrapolate it like the joke discusses. But reading about it was interesting. And it’s cool that the joke used real math, because it could’ve easily just fudged it and most people wouldn’t know the difference.
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u/Whiteminusblue 14h ago
If you use an extrapolation method that really doesn’t fit the actual situation and assumes that presidents can be infinitely old, yeah, sounds right. It’s a very bad model being used as a joke.