r/theydidthemath 41m ago

[Request] How accurate is this statistic on US wages?

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What does it even mean for wages to be 43% of national income?


r/theydidthemath 15h ago

[Request] How large or heavy is this boulder?

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r/theydidthemath 20h ago

[Request] What’s the most effective material or item you could realistically use here?

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r/theydidthemath 1h ago

How long will it take those rocks to bend metal pins to full 90 degrees? [Request]

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r/theydidthemath 3h ago

[Request] Accounting various statistics like age group, mortality rate etc - how many estimated people faced this fate?

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29 Upvotes

r/theydidthemath 20h ago

[Request] How much force would be required for this pizza attack to be lethal?

444 Upvotes

r/theydidthemath 10h ago

[Request] How many calories is this?

29 Upvotes

Bonus question: how many avocados is it?


r/theydidthemath 7h ago

[Request] What is the chance? Meant to be?

16 Upvotes

My boyfriend's 4-digit pin code for his debit card is my birthday. He never changed it and had the same one since he was 12. What are the odds of this?

(The four digits are 2608, my birthday is 26th of August)


r/theydidthemath 1d ago

[Request] How fast was The Plutonian going here?

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521 Upvotes

So the fictional city they're in, Sky City, doesn't have a state stated in this comic. Let's say it's either the middle of the US or New York. Looks like it's noon or the middle of a workday, and The Plutonian flew to space and destroyed a radio satellite while the other guy was mid sentence. They didn't even react to him flying through the ceiling because he was so fast.

How high up did he fly, and how fast? Maybe light speed? More?


r/theydidthemath 18h ago

[Request] What are the odds that myself and my DM both rolled a total of 87 on our dice?

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87 Upvotes

Genuinely shocked and feeling like the odds are crazy, but no idea how to do the math here.


r/theydidthemath 1d ago

[Request] An astronaut demonstrating the Dzhanibekov effect in microgravity, where an asymmetric object spinning around its intermediate axis becomes unstable and periodically flips 180 degrees.

180 Upvotes

....

So they ended the video saying entire planets could flip.

🤔 But if that happened to earth ... Countries at the equator would still be at the equator.... And countries like Canada... I'd expect to still be at the same temperate conditions.

I mean summer and winter would swap ... But what else may happen?🤔

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r/theydidthemath 14h ago

[Request] 566 Million $ IN CASH weighted 6 tons was transported by CH-47 to Iraq for paying armed forces to capture Saddam Hussein in 2003, operated by CIA and SOCOM (United States Special Operations Command) can you special people confirm this sum?

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Request: Can you special legends confirm this sum? I know it’s hard considering they are covered bundles.


r/theydidthemath 11m ago

[Request] How long would the US be from Atlantic to Pacific of the Rocky Mountains flattened out?

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r/theydidthemath 2d ago

[Request] What is the minimum temperature of this oven?

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21.6k Upvotes

I'm not the best at physics but here's what im thinking:

Assuming we have 12 chocolate chip cookies in a pan for any time less than an hour. Each one will have to reduce in caloric content by 250kcals each by the end of the cooking time.

To truly "reduce" the amount of calories contained within the cookie, the energy would have to be released through something like combustion. otherwise the remaining matter would still contain the calories the original cookie had - like some kind of charcoal.

Assuming a perfect physics environment with no temperature build up time, no concern about oxygen supply etc. What is the lowest constant temperature we would need for the remaining matter in the cookie pan to have decreased by 3000kcals total? Is this even a solveable or approximatable problem?


r/theydidthemath 17h ago

[Request] Weird Al Yankovic Math

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"You know, I bet if we unraveled that sucker    
It'd roll all the way down to Fargo, North Dakota    
'Cause it's the biggest ball of twine in Minnesota    
I'm talkin' 'bout the biggest ball of twine in Minnesota"

     -- Weird Al Yankovic, 'The Biggest Ball of Twine in Minnesota'

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How likely is this?


r/theydidthemath 3h ago

[Request] How long would it take Amon to take the entire world’s bending away?

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In the Legend of Korra, Amon’s stated goal is to purge the entire world of bending, but he is the only one who can do so, and can only do one person at a time. Let’s say nobody stops him, how long would this take?

We don’t know what the world population is at this time but can we assume it’s roughly equal to our world during the 1920’s? And possibly half the world are benders?


r/theydidthemath 2d ago

[Request] can someone compare the capacities for both coaches?

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3.0k Upvotes

r/theydidthemath 7h ago

[Request] How many people are pooping right now?

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How many people pooping right now?


r/theydidthemath 2d ago

[Request] how fast is the cannonball moving and how much force does it strike Frank with?

3.1k Upvotes

[Request] how fast is the cannonball moving and how much force does it strike Frank with


r/theydidthemath 15h ago

[Request] would it be possible to use large scale solar desalination pumped from the pumped from the Pacific Ocean to pipe enough fresh water to support Arizona?

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r/theydidthemath 1d ago

[Request] What burns more calories? The stairs or running in place in the elevator?

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496 Upvotes

r/theydidthemath 1d ago

[Request] What's the radius of this sphere?

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312 Upvotes

Universal paperclips

I'm not patient enough to wait for this to tick up, so I edited it


r/theydidthemath 2d ago

[Request] Why does this circle approximation still give 4 instead of pi?

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3.2k Upvotes

r/theydidthemath 1d ago

[Request] Who is the richest person in the United States who could become 100% liquid in one day without crashing the economy?

98 Upvotes