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  • #31
    Oooh, I love Fermi calculations.

    Let's see. About 260 million Americans. Let's say that 210 million of them drive a car on a regular basis. And they need to fill the gas tank once a week. That's 30 million fill-ups per day.

    So, if a gas station can have 100 customers in a day, and you'll need 30,000,000/100, about 300,000.

    Thanks Andrew

    I wonder if that's even remotely correct


    [This message has been edited by Wombat (edited 06 September 2000).]
    Gigabyte P35-DS3L with a Q6600, 2GB Kingston HyperX (after *3* bad pairs of Crucial Ballistix 1066), Galaxy 8800GT 512MB, SB X-Fi, some drives, and a Dell 2005fpw. Running WinXP.

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    • #32
      Speaking of math, does anybody ever use calculus? Ah, the memories, using 2 full pages at once to get half an equation on one line. It's all greek to me now, actually it was then too, alpha, beta, theta, gamma, blah, using a, b, or c would be too easy, you might actually be able to keep up with the blackboard and spare a milisecond for actually trying to understand it.

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      • #33
        Originally posted by Wombat:
        Let's say that 210 million of them drive a car on a regular basis. And they need to fill the gas tank once a week. That's 30 million fill-ups per week.
        Wouldn't that be 210 million fill-ups per week?

        -=-=-
        Andrew
        Lady, people aren't chocolates. Do you know what they are mostly? Bastards. Bastard coated bastards with bastard filling. But I don't find them half as annoying as I find naive, bubble-headed optimists who walk around vomiting sunshine. -- Dr. Perry Cox

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        • #34
          LS - I don't know if ping is the variable I'm interensted in. It may be the only one you can measure, but all I care about is smooth playability.

          Maybe ping is too artificial a measurement to be applicable. Upload speed and download speed may affect playability if you are transferring big chunks of data instead of a single pulse. Is ping really the bottom line? I wonder.

          Has anyone tested changing download speed vs. playability? If playability is independent of download speed, then why are people rushing to get higher bandwith?

          Wombat - Not too close...

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          • #35
            okay a small question for those that have a mathmatecal/scientific way of thinking.

            If you are driving along at 70mph. What speed are the bottoms of your tyres doing?

            Once you've figured that out, what about the tops?
            1st system

            Athlon AXIA Y 1Ghz @ 1.40Ghz, coolermaster hsf, Elite K7s6a, 512 MB Crucial DDR RAM, 20GB IBM 7200RPM Hard drive, Radeon 8500le 64mb, SB Audigy, 3 com 10/100NIC, 300w PSU, midi tower, FPS 1600 Surround, Belinea 17" monitor, Intellimouse explorer USB

            System 2

            Athlon TB 1.4 @ 1.5, Zalman Flower in silent mode, Elite K7S6A, 768MB DDRAM, Ati Radeon 8500le 64mb ddr, SB Audigy, 3Com 10/100NIC, 80GB IBM 7200rpm, Liteon 16 speed DVD, Lite-on 24102b CDRW, Songcheer Superwide, USB scanner, Intellimouse explorer, Microsoft keyboard, 19in iiyama Monitor, FPS1600

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            Abit ST6 RAID, Celly 1.2 @1.4 ,512MB SDRAM, Zalman Flower HSF noisey mode, ATi Radeon 8500le, SBLIVE, 3com 10/100 NIC, 80GB Seagate barracude HDD, 40GB IBM120GXP, 60GB IBM60GXP,Extra highpoint controller card, 16x Pioneer DVD, Pioneer DVR-104 DVD-RW, ATX Full tower case. 300w psu, 17in LG monitor, 20in Samsumg telly, epson stylus colour 880, 200W RMS Surround sound amp with Mission M71 Speakers.
            .

            System 4
            Elite K7S5A, Duron 1.0, 128mb sdram, Coolermaster hsf, 80GB 120GXP IBM, Liteon 16x DVD, Radeon 7200 64MB DDR, SBLIVE.

            Linksys 4 port router/firewall

            512k Cable modem. nice

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            • #36
              0 and 140 respectively.

              -=-=-
              Andrew
              Lady, people aren't chocolates. Do you know what they are mostly? Bastards. Bastard coated bastards with bastard filling. But I don't find them half as annoying as I find naive, bubble-headed optimists who walk around vomiting sunshine. -- Dr. Perry Cox

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              • #37
                At the given point of measurement, both tire speeds would be equal to 0 mph....

                I got a REAL question for ya:

                How long would it take a person living in West Lost Angeles (we'll call him Dimitri for simplicity sake) to go nuts from crack and missing his girlfriend who lives in Los Vegas (we'll call her Maria for simplicities sake once again)? I'll give you a cookie if you get it right!

                Dimitri

                Oh, about the gas stations.... I haevn't a clue, but I was going to go to amazon and cheat a bit when I noticed the TI-83 is still the best selling calculator! Someone explain this to me.... IT SUCKS! It always has and always will! I had an 82 ('fore my roommate dropped it out of my 7th floor dorm room) and had to get an 89 when above incident happened..... I LIKE that calculator... Hell, ANYTHING that does multi-D graphs so I don't have to, I like....

                [This message has been edited by Muad'Dib (edited 06 September 2000).]
                "The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and all science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead: His eyes are closed"
                --- Albert Einstein


                "Drag racing is for people that don't know how to brake and downshift at the same time."

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                • #38
                  HP48! Toss that TI crap out the window where it belongs! Too bad all the new HP stuff's crap too.

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                  • #39
                    Hey, I did all those unit conversions up there with my HP48GX. Best calculator ever made.

                    -=-=-
                    Andrew
                    Lady, people aren't chocolates. Do you know what they are mostly? Bastards. Bastard coated bastards with bastard filling. But I don't find them half as annoying as I find naive, bubble-headed optimists who walk around vomiting sunshine. -- Dr. Perry Cox

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                    • #40
                      Yeah yeah, maybe for the old timers.... But for us youngins, it's all about the TI 89.... That thing saved my ass countless times! Hmmm, test today? Oh right, my calc does it already.... hahahaha

                      Dimitri
                      "The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and all science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead: His eyes are closed"
                      --- Albert Einstein


                      "Drag racing is for people that don't know how to brake and downshift at the same time."

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                      • #41
                        Wombat - 175,000 gas stations

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                        • #42
                          The HP48 was FINE calculator. Mine has been dropped, kicked, dunked in beer, survived living in my car (yes, it's been that bad), and just kept on working. I think I still have it around here somewhere...

                          Rags

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                          • #43
                            Cool. I was pretty close for not having any actual info.
                            Gigabyte P35-DS3L with a Q6600, 2GB Kingston HyperX (after *3* bad pairs of Crucial Ballistix 1066), Galaxy 8800GT 512MB, SB X-Fi, some drives, and a Dell 2005fpw. Running WinXP.

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                            • #44
                              What some scarier calculations? Using my trusty 48GX, I just punched in the diameter of the CD and how fast it's spinning and came up with the centripetal acceleration:

                              5400 RPM : 3912 g's
                              7200 RPM : 6956 g's
                              10000 RPM : 13418 g's

                              Moral of the story? Don't get close to a fast CD-ROM if it's about to explode.

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                              • #45
                                I love math games

                                I am from Germany so please excuse if the following question might be difficult to read .

                                A showmaster shows us three doors. Behind 1 door is a car - behind the other 2 are goats. You have to choose 1 door. After you did the showmaster will remove 1 door with a goat behind it (he is not allowed to remove the door you chose)! Now the host asks you if you want to chance the door or stick with the already chosen.
                                Now the question! What would you do? Would you change or would you stay!!!
                                Please explain why!!

                                have fun

                                BTW Its pretty easy if you like these kind of questions..

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