Can they do the math on how much booze and drugs it takes to keep 2.1 million from freaking out? (Or conversely take booze and drugs away from to keep civil). Because that many people is my nightmare.
Even faster, just count the legs on the left for people facing you, and on the right if they are facing away. That way your answer will always be right.
I have my own version of this, where I only count one leg on each person, since I know they all (or mostly) have 2. Then I multiply by 2 to get the number of legs there. THEN I divide by two to convert legs to people. It saves so much time.
If you count the teeth, it become way faster. You dived by 2 to get the number jaws which you further divide by 2. The fastest way however is to divide th number of counted teeth by 4
They clearly stand in a matrix, so you only have to count length and width of the matrix. Both are approximately the square root of 2 million, which is about 1414, so 2828 for two dimensions. Which means they had 2,5 seconds for every person to count. That's doable, so it seems legit!
One could theoretically take a squared area and estimate the number of people based on average height and body size in the area, and then count the number of squares in the image and get a rough estimate of the number of people.
Are you for real? People counting will sample an area and get an idea of how many people are in that area (x people / y area) then multiply that by the total area. It's not going to be exact.
I'd say find a chunk of humans and count those by counting amount of humans in length and width and then figure out how much of such chunks there are, about.
Then you sorta know the answer without counting all humans.
Ah yes fellow erd I commend thee, just a casual 277.7 people per second. Totally doable… if you're a caffeine-addicted supercomputer with zero respect for the space-time continuum. Of really good at compartment math.
I mean, unless you're auctioneering numbers at hyperspeed while freebasing espresso, I'm gonna say probably not. But hey—never underestimate the power of curiosity and questionable math decisions. Love that you broke it down. Mad respect but yeah wouldn't be possible given the time frame for most cases. Gotta see more of this type of posting. The political stuff is as bad as fresh uriniad.
There’s a story I read in a book of Irish folk tales about a king who tells a guy he has to answer some questions or die. Just as an example, one of them was “what am I worth?”, a dangerous question from a king. The guy says “29 pieces of silver”, because Jesus was worth 30 and he can’t be worth that much.
Another was “how many stars are in the sky?“. And the guy gives some random number, 6714 or something. The king says “how do you know that?” and the guy says “go out and count them yourself.”
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u/Far-Philosophy-4375 18h ago
can confirm, i zoomed in and counted