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A million more well on the way (aussie.zone)

submitted 2 years ago by Aussiemandeus@aussie.zone to c/lotrmemes@midwest.social

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[-] photonic_sorcerer@lemmy.dbzer0.com 24 points 2 years ago

What if he'd hoped for 18000 spears? The total number of spears hoped for isnt stated, therefore we cannot assume that 6001 is exactly half of the total.

[-] Visstix@lemmy.world 39 points 2 years ago

In this instance we can tell it's 6001 though.

[-] Enkers@sh.itjust.works 17 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

therefore we cannot assume that 6001 is exactly half of the total.

Correct, all we can deduce is the bounds:

Let x be the number of spears hoped for.

6000 < x/2 < 6002

12000 < x < 12004

Edit: fixed error

[-] rasensprenger@feddit.de 11 points 2 years ago

Less than half and more than half imply strict inequality, so 6000 < x/2 < 6002, so 12001 <= x <= 12003

[-] Enkers@sh.itjust.works 6 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

You're absolutely correct, it should be "<". Since he wished for such an odd number, I wouldn't constrain x to integers though. Maybe he wished for "more than twelve thousand spears"?

[-] Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works 6 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Why would you need to assume? If 6000<50% AND 6002>50%, he wishes for 12002 spears.

Edit: dammit, that's a lot of spears.

[-] Enkers@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Because the number you're reasoning about is the number of spears he wished for, not half the number he wished for, so mathematically, the logic holds for 3 different possible wished for integer values.

To arrive at precisely 12002 you need to make a further assumption which nobody has explained so far.

Also, a minor point, but that he wished for an integer number of spears is another assumption. Albeit a very reasonable seeming one, it's an assumption none the less. He could have wished for 12 thousand and π spears, for example. And no, I have no idea what you'd do with that ~14% of a spear.

If this were an SAT question, and upvotes correlated to what people were answering, well, the majority got this question wrong.

[-] JackbyDev@programming.dev 1 points 2 years ago

You forgot a zero, but yeah. Also I think they're talking about the movie, not the meme. In the context of the meme we can safely assume he meant 12,002 spears. (Let's not assume fractional spears are a thing.)