maths

[DOUGIEMORTON]

how long would it take to count to one million

[Hippy]

Let's say you can count five numbers a second, and not have to speak out the full name of the number such as fifteen hundred and twenty-five thousand, nine hundred and fory seven, then you will need (1 million divided by 5) 200,000 seconds. This resolves to 138 days, 3 hours, 3 minutes and 20 seconds.

1440 seconds = 1 day
360 seconds = 1 hour
60 seconds = 1 minute.

[Hippy]

Oh dear got the seconds in a day completely wrong. That was the number of MINUTES in a day. Now let's try again.

200,000 seconds resolves to INT(200,000 divided by 86400)=2 days, INT(2720 divided by 360)=7 hours, INT(200 divided by 60)=3 minutes, and 20 seconds.

86400 seconds = 1 day
360 seconds = 1 hour
60 seconds = 1 minute.

[Hippy]

I'm going to give up doing these things! I haven't got my thinking head on tonight. Now for a final go ...

60*60*24=86400 seconds in a day
60*60=3600 seconds in an hour
60 seconds in a minute

So cutting to the quick this now means that 200,000 seconds is 2 days, 7 hours, 33 minutes, and 20 seconds.

I'm no going for a lie down in a darkened room and recite my 60 times table.

[IndieSinger]

There was a long discussion on this site a few months ago. Take a look here - bernardo (*GAB*) reckons it would take a little over a year (realistically).

[DOB]

It wouldn't take as long as it would for Hippy to tell you how long it would take. Sorry Hippy!

[bernardo]

Hippy: why did you get into a muddle multiplifationalising 60 times 60 times 24 in the first place? Why not just start off with the fact that there are 86,400 seconds in a day? It's not as if there's anybody who doesn't know that there are 86,400 ;-)

[medway26]

If you can count at the rate of 2 per second,not pronouncing the full number name (this is far more achieable thatn 5 per sec) it will take 500,000 seconds to count to 1m. 500,000 divide by 60 gives 8333 minutes or 138.9 hours or 5.78 days, roughly 5 days 19 hours.

[bernardo]

I'd like to hear someone saying "five hundred and thirty-seven thousand, six hundred and forty-two" in half a second. It takes me about three seconds even if I do it quickly.

[cheyenne]

wouldnt you die of hunger and thirst before you got half way through?let me know.