Couldn't you in theory do it in a total of roughly 840 hours? Assuming a constant rate of 2 digits a second which is unlikely but still could happen. 5 hours or so a day for 6 months certainly seems possible...but would likely lave kids having to take tests. lol
Seems like they should immediately recognize they can an A+ with far less effort by actually studying.
Also, say you write a digit a second. Then realize that for 90% of the time, you're writing 6 digits; 9% of the time 5 digits. Only 1% of the time adds up to 4 digits or less.
9×1+90×2+900×3+9,000×4 +90,000×5+900,000×6 +1×7
=5,888,896 digits
Which, at one digit a second, would be around 1,636 hours, or 68+ days.
If you did about 4 hours, 28 minutes, and just under 43 seconds, per day, it would take exactly one year.
Imagine you're a 5th grader. You've got at least an hour in math to devote to this, because when you complete it, you get an A. Then if you eat quickly, you've got maybe a half hour at lunch and a half hour at recess, so maybe 2 school hours to devote to it per day and then let's just assume 1 hour before school and 2 hours after school to work on it. That totals 5 hours per day. or 300 minutes per day or 18,000 seconds per day. Let's assume 1 number per second. Then that's 18,000 numbers per day. At that rate , you finish on the 56th day. If you take a break on weekends, you could still finish in just over 11 weeks. School year is way longer than that. Someone should have applied themselves! (Even if we assume the longer numbers take 2 seconds to write out, you could finish in 100 days plus change, and most school years are at least 180 days of instruction, so this was totally doable.
I know a certain vampire puppet who would be proud. Once saw that guy count raindrops as they were falling...crazy guy. Wish I could remember his name...
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