Ah, it's good to be back.
One hour ago, I watched this video. I love Vsauce, and the subject of the video was intriguing, but it inspired me to perform really pointless calculations. I like to think that I have at least a reasonable degree of competency in arithmetic, and sometimes I do things like this purely as a mental exercise, so I thought it might be interesting to dedicate a thread to these and similar exercises.
It would cost £1.16362×10[sup]30[/sup].
Feel free to ask me for working on the first one, but not the second. I can't remember exactly how I came upon this number; mayhap I was inebriated at the time. What I do know is that it required several steps involving monetary unit conversions and inflation, and I made at least two rather tenuous assumptions.
Anyone else who enjoys these kinds ofmental masturbations problems, feel free to add your own.
One hour ago, I watched this video. I love Vsauce, and the subject of the video was intriguing, but it inspired me to perform really pointless calculations. I like to think that I have at least a reasonable degree of competency in arithmetic, and sometimes I do things like this purely as a mental exercise, so I thought it might be interesting to dedicate a thread to these and similar exercises.
If the length of a railway were equivalent to the (estimated) diameter of the observable universe, how many times longer would it be than the longest railway on Earth?
The answer, according to my calculations, is about 9.4736×10[sup]19[/sup]. (The world's longest railroad is of course the Trans-Siberian Railway.)It would cost £1.16362×10[sup]30[/sup].
Feel free to ask me for working on the first one, but not the second. I can't remember exactly how I came upon this number; mayhap I was inebriated at the time. What I do know is that it required several steps involving monetary unit conversions and inflation, and I made at least two rather tenuous assumptions.
Anyone else who enjoys these kinds of