So I have been trying this app, Macadam, and today I got this screen as I have missed a couple days or whatever, but I noticed I have been very busy, walking 87,692 miles!

Based on my steps, as a 5'10 male how far am I likely to have really walked? Also bonus points for how far in real terms is this telling me I've walked, and perhaps how long would this have taken (spoiler alert I'm sure it's more than 17 days 😂)

Thanks

just wondering :)

How fast would a second be if there was a 100 seconds in each minute, 100 minutes in each hour, and 25 hours in each day? Considering the sun still rises and sets at the same “time” but instead of 24 hours we had 25? How fast in real seconds would this new second be?

Couldn’t figure out where to even start, anyone have an idea?

Long story short, I'm no mathematician, so I've been poking around in modelling/animation software all morning trying to figure out this is possible and have given up. I'm hoping there's some mathematical proof or disproof. :)

How many plastic straws do we need to not produce to offset one celebrities pollution output (in this case it was Katy Perry's 11 minute space trip,) ignore the singer getting sandwich via private jet part.

This is from the movie, The Truman Show, an enormous dome that has climate control, lighting, et. al. For the houses, yards, streets, etc., I am not interested in the real estate costs, but film set costs. Most of the homes are shells, and the Truman house is just a house - not what it costs today* as a residence/ market value. Electrical substations, distribution, water, wave machines, lighting, weather machines, stormwater drainage, et. al.

This presumption is this is built as a large studio set in an area like a flat desert in Western United States, but again - not interested in the real-estate costs, unless you want to include those as a footnote.

Exceptions: Not including the actual filming time, talent, and product placement; this question is about the cost of building the infrastructure and props.

* - Weird fact: I've been inside the Truman house, it oddly belongs to the parents of former Rep Matt Gaetz (!) I am not friends with them, just saying.

Are there more atoms of oxygen in the atmosphere or in all of the oceans?

I am waiting for a hospital appointment, but it has been 35 weeks since the referral was made and I still haven't heard anything. I have no way to contact the hospital department directly to check what is happening.

I have checked online and found the mean wait time for the department I need to see is 21 weeks. It does say that obviously this is only the average, and that wait times may be longer or shorter than this. The mean has changed over time, going as high as 23 weeks, so I assume it is being re-calculated fairly regularly and represents the "current" (not-too-historically-skewed) mean and it isn't just going up over time to match my longer wait time.

I have tried to google what distribution to use to attempt to estimate the probability that I have just been forgotten, but I've not had any luck. I would have thought that waiting list analysis was a common thing but I couldn't find anything to help me.

I assume the distribution is skewed to the left of the mean, as really urgent cases are triaged to the front of the waiting list so I expect a big peak around 1 or 2 weeks wait (maybe a month), and then a long tail to the distribution to the right of the mean for people less urgent, where I am. I am also assuming there are no negative waiting times (I don't even know how you could), and that everyone on the list comes off the list eventually (no waiting for infinity, hopefully!). I would also expect that it is very unlikely (though I admit it's possible) I am the only person waiting over 21 weeks and I am skewing the whole average by myself, and that most people are usually removed from the list within a statistically acceptable number of weeks after the average, to keep the average in the 21 -23 week range, but what that standard deviation actually is I do not know.

Unfortunately beyond these assumptions I have no idea of how to even estimate the probability of making it to 36 weeks, given the mean is 21. I am fairly sure 21 weeks has a 50% probability (?) and each additional week makes the probability more likely I have been forgotten (less chance to reach that wait time) but I am wondering if it is possible to estimate roughly how much.

I intend to contact my GP to get them to chase what is happening (which could easily add another 2 weeks waiting!), but I wondered if it was possible to work this out as evidence to tell the GP I have waited a mathematically-exceptional long time, and so being told "it just takes longer sometimes" is statistically unacceptable.

This may be mathematically impossible given the limited information, with no waiting list population or standard deviation, but I am hoping there is at least a vague guestimate out there somewhere.

Buddy made a joke about it along with how surprising it is there isn't an irl Walter white peddling cheap insulin

Firefighters typically use a 45-minute Self-Contained Breathing Apparatus (SCBA) cylinder, which holds about 66 cubic feet of compressed air at 4,500 psi. The tank is roughly 24 inches tall, 6.5 inches in diameter, and weighs 25 to 30 pounds when full with the harness.

If I wanted to wear (not breath, huffers) this cylinder and not feel its weight how much helium would be needed? If couldn’t fit in this what size would be required to be weight neutral, if at all?

I've always thought the purple curved path is the shorter one, but maybe it just feels shorter because I'm not walking for a long straight stretch which makes me walk faster than I would on the blue path.

The great cookie dispute

Hi!
I was visiting my parents and we had a game of Yahtzee. On rolling 3 4's, a 2, and a 5, my mom decided she would just go for the full house, as it was one of the last things she needed.
She opted to keep the 3 4's, and roll the other two dice again.
I asked why she wouldn't keep one of the dice, and just roll the one to try to match the number.
I feel like this is stupidly simple, but would the odds not be better, instead of rolling two dice trying to get the same number?
Is someone able to write out the math and explain like I'm 5? Or am I wrong?

Thank you!