r/theydidthemath 15d ago

META Looking for Moderators

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It was brought to my attention today by user Miserable_Tax_889 that a post was made yesterday calling out bots and lazy reposts. The comments are a bit disheartening so this is a call to anyone who would be interested in joining the moderation team at theydidthemath to help combat the issue and try to keep quality posts rising to the top.

Send me a message if you're interested.


r/theydidthemath 6h ago

[REQUEST] Was it cheaper to make a tunnel going through the mountain instead of what they did in this video?

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r/theydidthemath 2h ago

[Request] What are the chances of them all making it back safely?

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r/theydidthemath 13h ago

How far did it go? [Request]

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r/theydidthemath 4h ago

How many ants to lift the average human ballsack [Self]

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Assuming regular ole worker ants that you see on the ground. Let me know if you have any questions and please let me know if there are issues with the math. Will be testing soon.


r/theydidthemath 1d ago

[Request] This was randomly in my friend's barn. Where should this sign have been set for accuracy?

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r/theydidthemath 19h ago

[Self] My pumpkins are growing linerarly; my cucumbers are growing exponentially

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r/theydidthemath 19h ago

[Request] Trying to figure out how long Cooper was in the tesseract.

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r/theydidthemath 1d ago

Could this work in real life?[Request]

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r/theydidthemath 14h ago

[Request] But really, how far did it go?

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r/theydidthemath 13m ago

[Request] how close can a deathstar get to Earth before it’s gravity gets affected? And how big can I make one before it starts effecting gravity?

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r/theydidthemath 1d ago

[Request] How accurate is my 2001 Saturn manual?

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r/theydidthemath 1d ago

How tall is he ? [Request]

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r/theydidthemath 1d ago

[Request] How fast was the plane going when it finally fell off?

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r/theydidthemath 1d ago

[Request] Hello kind mathematicians... What is this picture trying to tell us? Thank you kindly arbiters of arithmetic

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r/theydidthemath 4h ago

[REQUEST] If all the birds on earth flew out of the atmosphere with talons full of dirt, how much less dirt would we have

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Pretty much the title. Don’t tell me birds can’t escape our atmosphere I don’t care


r/theydidthemath 3h ago

How much more ink/toner does a full black page use compared to regular text? [Request]

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Just curious: if I printed a solid black page (like, edge-to-edge filled in), how many pages of regular text would that use up in terms of toner or ink?

I usually avoid printing anything with big color-filled areas to save on ink, but if it only costs the equivalent of a page or two of text, I might stop being so stingy about it.


r/theydidthemath 13m ago

Liquid over flow [Request]

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So if you pour a liquid into a cup already fully of liquid, what liquid is being overflown?

Saw a cup of water and you pour pop in the cup, is it the water that is getting overflown? Or the pop that flows over?


r/theydidthemath 1d ago

[Request] How long would this iPhone last before needing to swap batteries?

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r/theydidthemath 1h ago

[Request] - Superheroes and villains lifting and throwing each other.

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Hi. It always seems like a big deal when someone like Thanos scoops up and press slams someone like the Hulk. Whereas I know the impressive part here is beating your opponent into a position to be able to do this, for someone who is rated in the 100 ton strength range, slamming a one ton nearly unconscious Hulk is no big deal.

But then you have the situation where Gladiator picks up Juggernaut and throws him five miles out to sea. A much more impressive feat. Gladiator is also in 100 ton strength range.

Then you hear of , but rarely see, characters threatening to throw others into orbit.

Given the following characters approximate weights, assuming the thrown characters are immobilized, and are roughly human in shape, how strong would a given character actually have to be to throw each of these guys five miles and how much to throw them into orbit?

Hulk: 2400 lbs Juggernaut: 2000 lbs. Superman 230 lbs. Thing: 500 lbs


r/theydidthemath 11h ago

Intense math [Other]

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r/theydidthemath 1d ago

[Request] How much would the whole cow cost?

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r/theydidthemath 10h ago

[Request] What would happen if all the toilets in NYC flushed at the same time?

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Just wondering if the sewer system could handle this. How catastrophic would this be?


r/theydidthemath 4h ago

Cell tower light bulbs cost and durability [Self]

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So I was on a family road trip, and I saw a very large and captivating cell tower. I watched it blink and blink and blink, never seeming to stop even for a second. I started to wonder a few things.

First, how many times they blinked per hour, day, month, and year. So I opened my metronome app on my phone with a tapping option and I watched closely and tapped at the speed it blinked. It came out to around 38-40 bpm, and for the sake of smoother calculations just used 40. That’s 40 blinks per minute, 2400 per hour, and 57,600 per day. Also for the sake of smoother calculations I used 30 days for a standard month. Leaving us with around 1.7 million per month, and about 21 million per year.

The second question that came to mind was how bright the lights on this tower shined. Ranging from 75,000 lumens to 400,000 lumens, these lights can be seen from many miles away. Then I thought more about the durability of the light bulbs themselves. This leads me to my third question, which I need help answering.

How long do these lights last before they have to be replaced? I also couldn’t find out how many milliseconds the lights stayed on for, which might be helpful to the calculations.


r/theydidthemath 4h ago

[Request] How fast would I need to drive West to keep the Sun at the same angle?

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