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IRL: 1x03 - Distress call iterations

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  • 11-06-2005 11:19pm
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    OFDM
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    Just noticed that the first time the "iteration" is heard it's 7294531 but the next iteration is 17294532 - simple editing mistake or something more significant?

    Also based on the length between iterations and ignoring the "time-compression" of tv (the length of the message varies in on screen time), it took Sayid 90 seconds to calculate 17294532 × 30 ÷ 60 ÷ 60 ÷ 24 ÷ 365 = 16.45, that's some amazing mental calculation.


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    steveland?
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    OFDM wrote:
    Just noticed that the first time the "iteration" is heard it's 7294531 but the next iteration is 17294532 - simple editing mistake or something more significant?

    Also based on the length between iterations and ignoring the "time-compression" of tv (the length of the message varies in on screen time), it took Sayid 90 seconds to calculate 17294532 × 30 ÷ 60 ÷ 60 ÷ 24 ÷ 365 = 16.45, that's some amazing mental calculation.
    I put it down to him being Iraqi... Iraqis are good at mental arithmatic... right?


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    Basq
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    steveland? wrote:
    I put it down to him being Iraqi... Iraqis are good at mental arithmatic... right?
    Funnily enough.. i thought Sayid had 'Casio' branded across his forehead..! :D

    That's why i thought he worked it out so quickly!


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    bonkey
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    OFDM wrote:
    Also based on the length between iterations and ignoring the "time-compression" of tv (the length of the message varies in on screen time), it took Sayid 90 seconds to calculate 17294532 × 30 ÷ 60 ÷ 60 ÷ 24 ÷ 365 = 16.45, that's some amazing mental calculation.

    Depends how you do it.

    If you've any practice with it, its realtively easy to recalculate/remember the number of seconds or minutes in a month or a year. Doing things like the 30-second loop is shortcutted by knowing :

    525600 minutes in a year (I generally don't remember this, but just that its a touch over 525000)

    Then its 2 loops per minute

    This gives 1051200 30-second loops per year with virtually no calculation involved. (I'd have 1050000 as my no-math guesstimate)

    Thats a touch over 1,000,000, and the counter-loop number was just over 17,000,000, so the answer is gonna be somewhere between 16 and 17 years.

    :)

    jc


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    pickarooney
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    Pretty easy with vedic mathematics. Apparently, I don't quite understand it but have seen ordinary (i.e. not maths professors) people do similar calculations in a minute or so.


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