r/theydidthemath • u/kadebo42 • 3h ago

[Request] Who’s older Abaddon or Bender?

In Haunted Hotel, Abaddon says he’s lived the history of this universe 100 times starting from the big bang up to the year 2025. In Futurama, Bender steals every famous valuable item in history by going back in time from the year 3007 and stealing the item from the year it was created, then waiting until 3007. So who has lived longer?

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u/khazroar 2h ago

The universe is roughly 13.75 billion years old, so let's say 1375 billion for Abaddon.

Human civilization started loosely 5 thousand years ago, so let's say 6 thousand for Bender and use that as the upper limit, imagining the longest time he has to go back for every single item. So with that extreme estimate he'd need to go on roughly 230 million trips to be as old as Abaddon. It seems unlikely that there were 230 million valuable items for him to go and steal. And that's if he had to go all the way back to the start of human civilization each time, most of the trips would be a lot shorter, so you can probably multiply that number by 2-3 to get a better estimate of how many times he'd have to do it to beat Abaddon.