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Re: I wear your shirt

#11

Post by ramidarigaz »

patio11 wrote: post #7
eam wrote: post #3

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That's for 2009. For 2010 it'll increment by $2 instead of $1. Why couldn't have I thought of that?

He should ask for $1 the first day, $1.10 the second day (10% more), $1.21 (10% more) the third day... and mathematical illiteracy for Christmas.

By my calculations that's about $14,000,000,000,000,000.

Not bad for a year.

Re: I wear your shirt

#12

Post by euccastro »

eam wrote: post #3
Raphael wrote: post #2

$66,795. Not bad.

That's for 2009. For 2010 it'll increment by $2 instead of $1. Why couldn't have I thought of that?

You could. After the Red Clip guy, the Million Dollar Page, and the woman who sold a tattoo on her forehead, this is becoming an old trick. Yet it still works!

Re: I wear your shirt

#14

Post by [deleted] »

patio11 wrote: post #6
m0th87 wrote: post #4

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This is one of those domain-specific areas in which Wolfram is awesome: http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=sum+of+n+from+1+to+365

We can't all be Gauss but, then again, we're not in fourth grade anymore, either. You can sum over any range trivially: average of the endpoints times length of the range. The average of 1 and 365 is 183. There are 365 elements between 1 and 365 (both inclusive). 183 * 365 = 66795. Yay, right answer. (There is a formula. I have a poor memory for formulas but am good at transforming English into them, so I just rememb…

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Re: I wear your shirt

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Post by [deleted] »

icey wrote: post #13
m0th87 wrote: post #4

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This is one of those domain-specific areas in which Wolfram is awesome: http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=sum+of+n+from+1+to+365

A REPL is nice too: (reduce + (range 366))

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Re: I wear your shirt

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Post by RyanMcGreal »

seldo wrote: post #10
m0th87 wrote: post #4

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This is one of those domain-specific areas in which Wolfram is awesome: http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=sum+of+n+from+1+to+365

I knew there must be a formula but I totally just broke out a spreadsheet and auto-generated the sequence and then auto-summed it. Math/brain fail.

Alternately: fast repetition of trivial operations win.

Re: I wear your shirt

#18

Post by Torn »

icey wrote: post #13
m0th87 wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This is one of those domain-specific areas in which Wolfram is awesome: http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=sum+of+n+from+1+to+365

A REPL is nice too: (reduce + (range 366))

Python:

  reduce (operator.add, range(366))

Re: I wear your shirt

#19

Post by obiefernandez »

Jason is a good personal friend and lives here in the Jacksonville Beaches area. Just wanted to mention that he does a lot of work to execute the concept, much more than is readily apparent. The job is not only wearing the shirt -- he spends hours producing original video content EVERY DAY -- engaging and retaining his audience is the main part of the job.
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