Topic: Can any brains here solve this...
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GentleS0ul

Wed 11/30/16 08:16 AM


I just can't seem to wrap mine around it.

if 1000 years equals 1 day in a different time construct, then how long is 25 minutes in the 1 day construct.


Sorry davidben1 but my brain is on vacation till the end of the year.
I am just too lazy to calculate and take leap years into an account.
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Raylabr

Mon 01/02/17 05:04 PM

60*24=1440 divided by 25=57.6 1000 divided by 57.6 = 17.3411111years
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sharp822

Fri 01/27/17 06:19 PM

assuming leap years are included, average is about every 4 years, so we will add 250 extra days to our math problem to account for the 250 leap years in 1000 years and we all know a leap year is just one extra day in a year. so 365 days*1000 years=365,000 days plus the 250 so 365,250 days in 1000 years. 24 hours a day * 365,250 days = 8,766,000 total hours * 60 minutes an hour = 525,960,000 minutes in 1000 years. now we need to know how many minutes are just 1 day, 60min*24hr=1440 mins in a day. so now we make an equation. 25/1440=n/525,960,000. so cross multiply and you get 1440n=13,149,000,000. divide to find n. 13,149,000,000/1440. so 25 minutes equals 9,131,250 minutes in your construct. aka. 6341.1458333 days/7days=905.8779761905 weeks/4 weeks=226.4694940476 months/12 months=18.8724578373 years
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sharp822

Fri 01/27/17 06:22 PM

everyone will disagree on the correct answer depending on how detailed you actually go into the math, for sake of time and confusion I went with the simplest answer
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Carterraygary7

Fri 01/27/17 08:03 PM

25mins = 32-36 yrs. Cal. Leap and other factors
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coochlover

Mon 02/20/17 05:44 AM

That's what I got too...
1440 min in a day.
% 25 min is of it = x
x x 1k years = 17.3611111

Quick *rough* check.
Using rounded numbers.
There are 57.6 25 min periods in a day or say 50,
times answer of 17.361111 or say 20,
equals 1000...
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coochlover

Mon 02/20/17 05:46 AM

But I didn't count leap years... Good call. :)
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coochlover

Mon 02/20/17 05:48 AM

This didn't work.
I reposted the right way..
Edited by coochlover on Mon 02/20/17 05:55 AM
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coochlover

Mon 02/20/17 05:54 AM


Id say its still going to be 25 minutes, in that one day construct.


ScrumpyHaze

Relatively speaking... ;0
Edited by coochlover on Mon 02/20/17 05:57 AM
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manuts

Wed 03/22/17 08:48 PM

Does that day have 24h as well?
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butribu

Wed 03/22/17 08:50 PM

just a few conversions and maths inverse proportion.
Edited by butribu on Wed 03/22/17 08:57 PM
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butribu

Wed 03/22/17 09:05 PM


Does that day have 24h as well?


this was a very clever question for the case that there might be a trick. i liked it :)
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FunnyFace1000

Thu 03/23/17 10:45 AM

Simple conversion factors, assuming a 31 day month. The answer is 17 years, 4 months, 10 days and 8 hours.