Thursday, April 12, 2012

An Oddity

As of the last post the blog had 1,234 posts, a simple ordinal progression. If that took 4 1/2 years to produce, how long will it take to reach the next ordinal in the series? Show your work.

3 comments:

R2D2 said...

16.20583468 years

Stan said...

If the next in the ordinal progression is 12345, then the equation would be:

x/12345 = 4.5/1234

and
x = (4.5 * 12345)/1234

so
x = 45.0182 years

The time from now would be:
t = (45.0182 - 4.5)
t = 40.5182 years.

R2D2 said...

Oh well, I thought it was 5678...

Anyways, I think you have a great blog and hope you keep it up.

Maybe one day you'll expand on your post regarding the mathematics of reason. (When you're not counter-punching with the atheists.)