XKCD Sex Calculator

[rootbear75]

so im bored at work today, reading xkcd, and i come across a semi-recent comic:

 

http://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/fermirotica.png

 

Using his formula, and the values for my area:

 

Regional Density: Northern VA: 3072 per mi^2 (4.8 per acre)

Average frequency of sex (taken off of numerous pages) 104/year (twice a week for average couples in their 20s)

Average Duration of sex: i couldnt find a reliable number, so im using his "30 minutes"

 

Plug this into the google Calculator (You must include units for it to work correctly), and I came up with someone is having sex within 300 meters of this office... theoretically. (multiple bathrooms, other offices, people staying late, it could work... even a pilot doing it to one of the FAs outside on the planes...)

 

 

What's it like for your area?

Edited July 14, 2009 by rootbear75

[Dr Brain]

That comic is months old.

[🜲 Samapico]

Your office is 600m large? ... Airport still?

 

And yeah, that is pretty old. I just discovered xkcd a few days ago, actually

[★ Lynx]

Like any formula, the lesser the entities the shittier the result.

[Incomplete]

So so sad.

[rootbear75]

Your office is 600m large? ... Airport still?

um no....

 

thats just the distance away from my desk that someone was probably having sex...

[🜲 Samapico]

You edited your post you sneaky bastard

[rootbear75]

um no... i edited it 2 minutes after i posted it so... you just read wrong.

[🜲 Samapico]

hmmmm

 

 

 

perhaps

[★ Lynx]

Yeah, sama. Lean to read, newb.

[★ CRe]

Yeah, sama. Lean to read, newb.

 

Learn*

[🜲 Samapico]

Lean to read... isn't that what old people do?

[★ Lynx]

It was part of the joke, honest. =)

[Trained]

I should of stayed in high school.

 

Formulas?

[★ Lynx]

I worked it out as 124 meters from me.

[🜲 Samapico]

Now, make it a life goal of yourself to lower this average, so it tends towards 0 meters, meaning you'd constantly have sex

[★ Lynx]

If sea levels keep rising, that number will keep falling... Oh, but then I guess there's Swine Flu! Gah

[rootbear75]

Now, make it a life goal of yourself to lower this average, so it tends towards 0 meters, meaning you'd constantly have sex

Wouldn't work.

It would be: "On Average, someone within 0 meters is having sex."

Edited July 23, 2009 by rootbear75

[🜲 Samapico]

.... That's exactly the point? The only person at 0.0000 meters from you is you (let's consider your center of gravity as origin).

[rootbear75]

.... That's exactly the point? The only person at 0.0000 meters from you is you (let's consider your center of gravity as origin).

yes, but thats ON AVERAGE.... not always...

 

and by that logic, that would mean you are reaching it around and f***ing yourself.

 

and i dont think its possible either...

cant find a calculator to do it however... have to have units in there otherwise it wont work.

If you can simplify the equation using 8 0/year * 30 minutes, then we should be fine(0.00456318211)

 

 

EDIT: ...ok, someone turn off the NUMBER 8 0 making that stupid smiley face...

 

Oh, and i found a graph...

 

Title: Distance in Miles on average that someone is having sex, As per your regional density X (in people per miles squared)

 

However, it's in miles, not meters... so do the conversion for yourself.

x = population density in Miles^2

y = distance in miles

 

So, for 3750 people per mile squared: your distance is .221 miles which equals 356.414978 meters

 

Thats if i did my caculations correct.

 

Source: http://web2.0calc.com/ using "plot(sqrt(2/(pi*x*0.00456318211)), x=0.. 10000)" as my argument.

Edited July 23, 2009 by rootbear75

[★ Lynx]

'yes, but thats ON AVERAGE.... not always...'

 

However, if the number goes low enough it no longer stays as an average and becomes a constant.

 

'and by that logic, that would mean you are reaching it around and f***ing yourself.'

 

No, because the population density would be so high that we'd all be crushed (for it to reach a level of 0.00000), but theoretically you'd be fucking the closest person crushed into you, or they'd be fucking you.

 

-L

[🜲 Samapico]

If something that cannot be negative has an average value of 0, it means it is always 0.

[🜲 Samapico]

EDIT: ...ok, someone turn off the NUMBER 8 0 making that stupid smiley face...

Done... I must say the default emoticons set had a lot of dumb settings.

80 changed for

[img=http://www.ssforum.net/public/style_emoticons/default/mega_shok.gif]

to get

Also changed to

[img=http://www.ssforum.net/public/style_emoticons/default/dirol.gif]

to get

 

 

Undesired smileys are annoying

[★ CRe]

Undesired smileys are annoying

 

[⛊ Drake7707]

However, it's in miles, not meters... so do the conversion for yourself.

 

Who the hell uses miles nowadays, switch to the bleeping standard metric system

 

This post was totally relevant, as much relevancy as this thread, yessirree