[Request] Alright, Can somebody measure how big the D was because it gave me a seizure reading this.
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Why did we learn about slopes, r/memes? Thank you to /u/_S43D_ [Request]
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[request] what are the odds of the whole family having the same birthday?
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[Request] What is the answer to the question?
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[RDTM] Katherine Ryan did the math

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[Request] Stats geniuses: is this true?
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Request What are the chance of a random sexual encounter resulting in a pregnancy?

So, some context.

Over the weekend, I attended a LARP (Live-action Roleplay). During the LARP, two friends of mine decided that their characters had a little tumble in the hay. Their characters had never met before. After the LARP finished, they rolled a dice to see if the woman became pregnant, and she did. I think they simply rolled a D6 and decided that a "6" meant she got pregnant.

However, it got me thinking on what the, so to speak, actual odds would be?

Assuming:
* both people involved are of average fertility, in good health and, pardon the expression, of child-rearing age
* It is a chance encounter, a one-night-stand, meaning the woman can be in any part of her cycle.


So, what are the odds of a random one-night-stand between two people with the requisite parts resulting in a pregnancy?

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Request What are the odds of dying in a commercial plane PER HOUR PER INDIVIDUAL?

"Air travel is the nation’s safest form of transit. Injury and death rates in US air travel are measured by the rate of incidents per 100 million passenger miles, the total miles traveled by all air passengers." https://usafacts.org/articles/is-flying-safer-than-driving/

I am not everyone in the plane though. I want to know MY risk of dying. And while by distance is perfectly valid (since if I took a car instead I'd still have to travel the same distance), I'm curious if airplanes are still THAT much safer if we instead assessed the risk by time

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[Request] Windmill blade catching fire due to lightning strike

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[Request] What is Quicksilver top speed at this scene?

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This is click bait. Right? [request]
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[Request] How many trees to offset FIFA president Gianni Infantino's mileage at WC 2026?

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[Request] How much would the level of the lake drop from these planes?

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[Request] how many of these bb's point blank or at the distance he was away from the melon to cause the same concussive force as a .22 or a .45

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Self Federal money being sent to dead people

Saw this headline, read the article, did the math.

https://thenationaldesk.com/news/americas-news-now/treasurys-anti-fraud-anti-waste-efforts-flag-99m-in-payments-headed-to-dead-people

4,900 payments out of a set of 885,000,000,000 (885 billion) transactions examined is

\--> 0.00000055% (55 hundred-millionths of a percent) of the total transactions. (I think I converted that number to words correctly - open to correction.)


The value of these transactions was:

$99,000,000 (ninety-nine million dollars) Heck, that's a lot of money!

The value of all the 885 billion transactions in the data set was:

$2,700,000,000,000 (two point seven trillion dollars) That is an inconceivable amount of money.

\--> the $99M represents 0.00367% (367 hundred thousandths of a percent) of the total amount under consideration.


1) The money did not actually get delivered to dead people - the transactions were bounced back to the issuing agencies before this 'investigation' was done. Article title says "..headed for dead people."

2) The error rate is amazingly low. I would be proud of that "lack of error" rate.

3) Trillions of dollars is so massive that $99M is a miniscule rounding error.

>!&#x200B;!<4) Looking for fraud, waste and abuse is a good thing to do. They did not find it here.

5) Maybe go look at some "no bid" contracts. Might be something going on there...



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[Request] what speed was the truck driving when hit the suv

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[Request] How many hours a day would he have spent smoking? And is this possible?
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Request How much gasoline are you losing when you fuel up in 100° heat in the middle of the day vs. 70° heat at the same time, if you get 20 gallons?



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[Request] Assuming from keel to top mast, how many cubic feet would a building enclosing an Iowa-class battleship be?
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