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:

  1. 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.

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  2. 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.)

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