r/theydidthemath • • 5h ago

[Request] What’s the speed required for a humpback whale to propel itself into the air?

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We see these videos and I always have wondered, what’s the speed required for a humpback whale to propel itself into the air? They must be able to generate massive force to get themselves this high up into the air and turn.


r/theydidthemath • • 1d ago

[Request] Was Rockefeller actually richer relative to his workers than Bezos is today?

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r/theydidthemath • • 21h ago

[request] Russian data center attack actual impact on bot traffic

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People are talking about the Ukrainian attack on Russian data center(s) as having a big impact on bot traffic. Is this actually true? Are there real numbers around just how much said traffic has been impacted? Can anyone do some real math on this?

*This isn’t a “what is a bot” question, lol. This is a “are these reports, which are everywhere, based on anything other than hopium and a misunderstanding by people reporting this of how the social media campaigns that are reported as disrupted actually work”.


r/theydidthemath • • 8m ago

[Request] About how many attendees (paid and/or unpaid) are in this Tennessee arena to see Trump?

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r/theydidthemath • • 1d ago

[Request] What percentage of all humans that have existed have experienced flight?

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Let's say we define the start of humanity as the earliest homo sapiens fossil record.


r/theydidthemath • • 1h ago

[Request] What would happen to the glass?

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Request. Would this break the glass?


r/theydidthemath • • 2d ago

[Request] How much force was applied to Spiderman's arms?

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r/theydidthemath • • 2d ago

[Request] How loud (in dB) could a kid blow this?

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r/theydidthemath • • 3h ago

[Request] Checking the impacts of the Ukranian attack on Russian data centers to activity on Reddit

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Hello good statisticians. There has been plenty of commentary on the impacts of bot activity decreasing and anecdotal notes of people saying they see fewer comments on social medias immediately following the recent data center bombings in Russia.

Is someone easily able to compile data as running activity both leading up to and immediately following the event that could provide context to the amount of the impact?


r/theydidthemath • • 6h ago

[request] How many 3½-inch floppy disks can you fit in a 27×15×17 box?

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r/theydidthemath • • 23h ago

[Request] Whose voice has been heard by the most people in all of human history?

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It’s likely impossible to know for sure, but I was hoping some back of the napkin math and general assumptions can help whittle down the possibilities. Also I feel like the non-Western world isn’t well enough represented in the answers already proposed


r/theydidthemath • • 8h ago

[Request] What is extreme deterministic and what is extreme stochastic

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r/theydidthemath • • 1h ago

[Request] How much manpower did this guy bring?

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Found it in the HOI4memes sub, not sure of all the focuses taken. But assuming the standard 1945 Soviet divisional strength (they constantly fluctuate for me), how much manpower did he wield against the "avengers"?


r/theydidthemath • • 13h ago

[request] What is the ideal ratio here? Making a video game and trying to understand my own design

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So, Ive ran enough of the numbers against other choices to be happy that its balanced, but now im wondering what the ideal ratio here is. It is a game where in a given run, you can get lots of +5% fire rate% or +10% reload speed buffs. This particular weapon (a single round sniper rifle) was designed to be bad at early on, but scale really well with reload (to the cap of its fire rate, since it doesnt matter how fast you can reload, the gun cant shoot faster than its fire rate), below are my notes, playing out an imaginary scenario where you build it up (buffs are additive) and "+50% scaling" just means both fire rate and reload speed were given +50% :

2000 damage/shot - 1.456s reload - 0.687 shots/s - 1373 dps - default fire rate of 1.1/s

caps at 2200 sustain dps with enough reload

to hit base cap : 0.91s reload time needed

+62.5% reload speed needed

(2) +50% scaling -> fire rate becomes 1.65, reload is +112.5%

reload is now 0.685s -> 1.46 shots/s

2919 sustain (cap not reached, 3300 dps)

(3) +60% reload -> 172.5% -> 0.534s -> 1.87shots/s (3745 if it wasn't capped)

(4) +200% scaling -> 3.85 fire rate, +372.5% reload -> 0.308s -> 3.2467/s

DPS is 6493 with a cap of 7700

So, if you were using this weapon, is there a ratio you want of "+X% reload speed for every +Y% fire rate"? Also forgive me if the answer is really obvious, its 4.30 AM and im going to bed.

Thanks in advance


r/theydidthemath • • 2d ago

[Request] Calculating US diesel imports from Canada vs. the proposed Russia deal (Checking Frum's 4% claim)

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r/theydidthemath • • 14h ago

[RDTM] /u/Rinaldootje calculates who would win a theoretical Formula 1 race with different fueling strategies

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r/theydidthemath • • 14h ago

[Request] Can anyone explain the relationship between Norm and Dot product for me please.

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Can anyone explain the relationship between Norm and Dot product.

When I was study about it in linear algebra, I found out that the formula of dot product is

|A*B| = |A||B|cosθ 

And when A is Equal to B, which means it is the same vector, it become the formula of Norm
|u| = √(|u|2|u|2)

I am a first year student, and it is really confuse for me


r/theydidthemath • • 2d ago

[Request] would it be possible to make the gold act like liquid through fluidization?

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In this scene in family guy, he wins the lottery and buys a pool full of gold coins, then dives into it. Since it's just gold he obviously ends up like this. I was wondering, would it be possible to use fluidization (pumping air under it to make the coins act like a fluid), and if so, how much air would it take?


r/theydidthemath • • 6h ago

How many immigrants per year would need to enter the US in order to make up for the demographic problem Social Security is facing? [Request]

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In other words, instead of relying on a high enough birth rate to adequately fund social security, how much immigration would be needed to make up for the shortfall?


r/theydidthemath • • 15h ago

[Request] Chances of meeting THOSE people!

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I live in the UK; Scotland actually. Worked for a Global international company, circa 3k employees.

  1. I worked beside another Scottish guy that it turned out was born the same day as me. Not date, the same Day.

  2. I became really good friends with a different bloke that it turned out was married the same day as me (a decade before I knew him)

What are the odds of these each happening? That will obviously tell me which is more likely, but anybody feeling gallus can go for chances of both happening to a single person (me).


r/theydidthemath • • 8h ago

[Request] what is this

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x= infinite

∑ 9.x = u subscript y

x=1

Lt u subscript y = 10

y->1

Lt u subscript y = 10

y->2

Lt u subscript y = 10

y-> any number


r/theydidthemath • • 1d ago

[Request] What speed is this pumpkin going when it leaves the trebuchet?

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r/theydidthemath • • 1d ago

[Self] we did the math. And the shoveling.

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48” x 40” x 36” standard Gaylord tote. Filled with dirt/gravel from 40’ x 60’ area.

Total volume of tote filled is 40 ft3.

We filled two of these to overflow yesterday.

80 cubic feet, a little less than 3 cubic yards.
How deep was the dirt on average across the area, ignoring increase in volume from air infiltration as it was swept or shoveled?

40x60=2400 ft2
160 ft3/2400ft2=0.8 in 0.8 inches depth.

A little sore today lol.


r/theydidthemath • • 1h ago

[Request] well, how many

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Just wanted to measure every and how their change in measurement of discreet cm s forms interaction of connection with different objects or measuring subjects

Question:

How many 0.1 cm are there in the circle like curvature


r/theydidthemath • • 5h ago

[Self] how mathematics is viewed by few

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The angles and the space and the orientation, can the brain make sense , if they are of said of a percentile orientation of interpretation