Topic: Anyone got this retarded calculation glitch in their head?

Anonymous A started this discussion 1 year ago #121,037

So if I had a party on Friday.... then on Monday, how many days ago was it? Do I only count Saturday and Sunday? What about Monday and the Friday itself?

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Anonymous B joined in and replied with this 1 year ago, 27 minutes later[^] [v] #1,323,955

If you had a party on Friday, then when you wake up on Monday morning you're on the third day since the party.

Think of it this way
If Saturday: the party was one day ago (yesterday)
If Sunday: the party was two days ago
Therefore if Monday: the party was three days ago.

Try not to think of "day" as a unit of time like hours and minutes but instead literally how many times the sun rose into the sky since then.

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Anonymous C joined in and replied with this 1 year ago, 5 hours later, 6 hours after the original post[^] [v] #1,323,976

depends on the start and end date

RisingThumb !8QC2aOJrlQ joined in and replied with this 1 year ago, 22 minutes later, 6 hours after the original post[^] [v] #1,323,984

You party too much.

Anonymous E joined in and replied with this 1 year ago, 10 minutes later, 6 hours after the original post[^] [v] #1,323,986

@1,323,976 (C)
That was already defined in the problem, so no it doesn't.

boof joined in and replied with this 1 year ago, 1 hour later, 7 hours after the original post[^] [v] #1,324,012

I suppose to get really technically accurate, you could first figure how much time elapsed to minute precision and then divide by the number of minutes in a day

Anonymous A (OP) replied with this 1 year ago, 9 minutes later, 7 hours after the original post[^] [v] #1,324,018

@1,323,955 (B)

Oh, I suppose one could ask themselves how many days to subtract from the current date.

Dana !N3luHurry2 joined in and replied with this 1 year ago, 13 minutes later, 8 hours after the original post[^] [v] #1,324,020

I always wondered why the Bible says that Jesus rose after three days and three nights. He was crucified on Friday afternoon and rose early Sunday morning, so how could that be?

Anonymous B replied with this 1 year ago, 32 minutes later, 8 hours after the original post[^] [v] #1,324,031

@1,324,018 (A)

No, just ask yourself how many times the sun has risen since then.

Anonymous B double-posted this 1 year ago, 8 minutes later, 8 hours after the original post[^] [v] #1,324,033

@1,324,020 (Dana !N3luHurry2)

> I always wondered why the Bible says that Jesus rose after three days and three nights.

It doesn't, but nevertheless "Three Days and Three Nights" is a Jewish idiom which can be applied "on the third day", even though only a few hours have passed.

Anonymous C replied with this 1 year ago, 20 hours later, 1 day after the original post[^] [v] #1,324,127

@1,323,986 (E)
not really, it only specified the time. the answer changes depending on which date it started on and which date it ends on.

Anonymous A (OP) replied with this 1 year ago, 16 minutes later, 1 day after the original post[^] [v] #1,324,134

@1,324,033 (B)

So if I partied on the morning of Friday before the sun had risen, it was four days ago when the sun rises on Monday?

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Anonymous H joined in and replied with this 1 year ago, 37 minutes later, 1 day after the original post[^] [v] #1,324,147

@previous (A)
Do you wish to use solar days or calendar days? If using solar days we also need to know precisely where the party took place. To use calendar days you can apply the logic Anon B suggested but instead of sunrises we will be counting midnights.

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Anonymous H double-posted this 1 year ago, 9 minutes later, 1 day after the original post[^] [v] #1,324,149

@1,323,976 (C)

> depends on the start and end date

This is true. On Monday it could be 0 days since the party ended, if the party hasn't ended yet.

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Anonymous B replied with this 1 year ago, 6 minutes later, 1 day after the original post[^] [v] #1,324,150

@1,324,134 (A)

Indeed most people would count that as a continuation of "Thursday night", because they slept four times since the party. Which is to say that if a person partied from 1am-3am Friday morning, went to sleep and then woke up at 10am, they'd think of Friday morning as being "last night".

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