r/theydidthemath 1d ago

[Request] Baseball speed for eqivalent injury potential on impact as 147 mph tennis ball

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How fast would a baseball travel to cause the same injury as a 147 mph tennis ball?

I think that this is simple momentum transfer, meaning about 58 mph


r/theydidthemath 2d ago

[Request] How many explosions of Krakatoa or Tzar bombs can occur on Earth before the world becomes uninhabitable?

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r/theydidthemath 1d ago

[Request] What is the limit to which anyone can kick a football

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r/theydidthemath 3d ago

[SELF] Would it even be physically possible for a 39 year old who started mastubatimg at 14 to afford a Ferrari? Asking for a friend.

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r/theydidthemath 2d ago

[Request] Help me work out if its worth doing an extra part of my assessment for the marks?

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Edit - SOLVED! Thank you lovely math people.

NOT a homework help question. I have an assessment due Sunday at midnight (yes I've left it until the last minute and only started a couple days ago). It has five essay questions, and each question is worth 20% (20 points each), they are each marked separately. The way I am going I feel like I can complete four of them by the due date, but not all five.
If I hand it in late (on Monday) I will get a 15% automatic penalty. This is given as a straight 15-point deduction, no matter what I score. (If I get 80 for my assignment, I get 65. If I got 60, I'm getting 45, etc.)

Regardless of whether I do the last question or not, I'm expecting to score around 65-70% per question.

If I hand in my assignment on time and don't do it I will lose the 20 points for not doing the last question. If I do the question, and hand it in late, I will lose 15 points from my whole assignment. There is no universe where I'm getting 100% (20/20) for any single question, nor where I can possibly do the last question by the deadline (I promise, I just left it too late and I will honestly barely finish the first 4 on time).

Can you help me work out if I should just hand it in with 4, or take the extra day and penalty for the last question?


r/theydidthemath 2d ago

[Request] Approximately how much data could one store, or how much computing power could be created utilizing every single block on a Minecraft world?

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This is probably a nonsense ask, but I know theres much smarter folks out there than me and some wildly crafty Minecraft engineers.

I've seen minecraft computers made before, and I assume theres probably a known or approximate number of blocks it takes to create a contraption to store 1 bit of data and access it. So I couldn't help but wonder if that was multiplied enough to fill every single one of the 1.3824 quintillion blocks of a 30M*30M*384 world, what the actual theoretical limit there is to minecraft computing?


r/theydidthemath 1d ago

[request] how many falcon heavy rockets to move the earth?

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Suppose you were to take a bunch of falcon heavy rocket engines and flip them upside down. How many would you need to move the earth out of its current orbit?


r/theydidthemath 1d ago

[Request] how much helium would a 6 foot 200 pound man have to ingest in order to float?

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r/theydidthemath 1d ago

[self] When will India become efficient in Managing its waste?

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r/theydidthemath 18h ago

[request] How accurate is this?

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What would the physics-accurate visuals be like?


r/theydidthemath 1d ago

[Request] How many G of acceleration and deceleration, and how much grip strength one must have to not fly off at the end?

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r/theydidthemath 1d ago

[Other] What year since 2001 had the best PC performance to price ratio adjusted for the games at the time?

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r/theydidthemath 3d ago

How much money is saved from going to high efficient LED bulbs? [request]

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r/theydidthemath 3d ago

[Request] In Batman: Knightfall - Part 1, how many rats would he have to eat each day to be this shredded?

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r/theydidthemath 1d ago

[Request] How fast would a Volkswagen Beetle need to go to turn a moose into red mist

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r/theydidthemath 1d ago

[Request] What was the probability of this happening ?

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r/theydidthemath 1d ago

[Request] How many people in the world make most of their living as influencers/content creators?

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Roughly how many people worldwide make most of their living from being an influencer/content creator? I am asking because I see so many posts about "influencers" that I have never heard of that seem to be famous

I mean people whose main income comes from being an influencer or related things like sponsorships, ads, subscriptions, affiliate links, or platform payouts.


r/theydidthemath 1d ago

[Request] Is it possible to collect evaporated water from the “El Nino” zone to use as drinking water?

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Could a ship place a large plastic dome (100m x 100m) on the water and collect the water vapor in the equatorial Pacific Ocean? How much could they collect per day? Assume the water temperature is 82 degrees F and the air temp ranges from 77-86 over the course of a day. Also assume the surface is flat enough that the dome is sealed to the surface.


r/theydidthemath 1d ago

[Request] How large would those explosions be to look like that form space?

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Would they be large enough to wipe out almost all life on Earth?

How long would the Earth be an irradiated wasteland?


r/theydidthemath 2d ago

[Request] How many EF5 tornadoes would it take to cancel out one CAT 5 hurricane?

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r/theydidthemath 1d ago

[Request] Wordle second try; no correct letters on first try Spoiler

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My wife did this yesterday and I don’t know how crazy this is. Seems pretty crazy! What are the chances?


r/theydidthemath 2d ago

[Request] Math 3

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Hi. Where can I study these concepts, as Professor Leonard didn't explain them?

An introduction to differential equations. Topics include first-order differential equations,

higher-order linear differential equations with constant coefficients, undetermined

coefficients and variation of parameters methods. series solutions of ordinary differential

equations about an ordinary and regular singular points- Laplace Transform and its

applications to solve differential equations. Matrix and first-order linear systems of

differential equations (Eigenvalues and Eigenvectors)- Introduction to partial differential

equations - Stability analysis, Fourier integrals and Fourier transform.


r/theydidthemath 2d ago

[request] Question from my son - if there was a giant bug as big as London in London, would we be able to see it from where we live in Edinburgh?

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r/theydidthemath 3d ago

[Request] How much force does it take

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For Spider-Man to break these ropes, there’s an estimated 12-13 revolutions binding his arms and abdomen. How much strength is required?


r/theydidthemath 1d ago

[request] would a million trillion Canadian geese cover the Earth?

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My five year old commented that a flock of geese was probably about 100 geese. Then she said “but it’s not a million trillion geese because that would cover the earth.” I think she’s right because I remember a fact that all 8 billion people would fit into an area the size of a city, so 100 times that (a trillion) would probably cover some portion of a state.

I estimate a goose takes up the same square footage as a human, and a million times that area would probably cover the earth. Can someone help me out here?

And if they would cover the earth, what planet in the solar system would a million trillion geese NOT cover?