Perhaps the calendar will reset to zero at the Second Coming?
On the other hand, there are distributions with a perfectly well-defined singular median and mode, but which do not have a mean at all. So if the definition of “average” is that the operation must always result in exactly one output, then the mean isn’t an average either.
On a related note, try this:
Count the letters in your last name.
Multiply it by your age.
Add ten.
Subtract ten.
Divide by your age.
You’ll end up with the number of times you’ve seen a lunar eclipse!
It really works, and I don’t know why–but only if the number of letters in your name equals the number of times you’ve seen a lunar eclipse.
Not true. It may also work if the number of letters in your name does not equal the number of times you’ve seen an eclipse, and you’re bad at arithmetic.
mind=blown
Bill Murray played Peter Venkman in the movies. Lorenzo Music voiced Peter Venkman on TV.
Lorenzo Music voiced Garfield the cat on TV. Bill Murray voiced Garfield the cat in the movie.
This only happens once every 62957 years.
Dunmurry is in the United Kingdom. For him, it’s maths are hard.
Since the factual answer to this conundrum was giving in the first reply, and subsequent answers are mostly jokes, let’s move this to MPSIMS.
Colibri
General Questions Moderator
No – in the U.K. (and in Australia) maths is hard, just as (for those who like long words) mathematics is hard.
This post is just further evidence that my doomsday phobia is not at all irrational.
Time until Doomsday + 2018 = Doomsday!
it might be so but there is no reason to assume that it must be so.
Bad math on that example, weeks have more than 5 working days.
But most workweeks have exactly 5.
How do you know Doomsday hasn’t already occurred?
Cite?
Regards,
Shodan
The equation still works if Time Until Doomsday is negative. Or even imaginary.
So this is really freaking me out.
I added the year I was born, my age AND the age I was when I was when born AND STILL GOT 2018!
I think I may be the only person where this is true.
I once dated a girl named 193. She was prime, but very odd.
I swear, she’s real.
And even if they didn’t there is absolutely no reason to suspect that the sick days will be evenly spread over a 5-day working week.
In fact, I rather suspect there will be a greater incidence of sick days either side of the week-end
well bugger me, this seems to be the case.
Whoosh.
It’s a joke, son. 40% is supposed to seem like a lot, a huge percentage of the week, to somebody who hears the claim and doesn’t bother to work out what it’s saying.
All it does is assume a five-day Monday to Friday work week and that one-fifth of the workers call in sick on any average day. Whether that’s true in reality is completely irrelevant. The point is that people don’t in fact take the time to work out number claims, which makes it another good example of the word play that tricked the OP.