A crazy thought I saw online that had me not believing it, until I did the math
Go ahead and look at this statement and think about it for a second.
Sorry for the horrible resolution, I don't know what I did wrong there but I think the point still gets across.
What he is saying is that if every single person on Earth had to compete in a fight tournament, there would be only 33 rounds before the tournament was over.
When we think about a number like 8 billion, the amount of people on earth, that seems impossible, right? Surely it would be many more rounds than that! There are some sport tournaments that seem as though they take more rounds than this.
But lets dig into the math shall we?
- 8 billion in one-on-one fight, 4 billion emerge victorious
- 4 billion in next round, 2 billion emerge victorious
- 2 billion: 1 billion remain
- 1 billion: 500 million remain
- 500 million: 250 million remain
- 250 million: 125 million remain
- 125 million: 62.5 million remain
- 62.5 million: 31.25 million remain
- 31.25 million: 15,625,000 remain
- 15,625,000: 7,812,500 remain
- 7,812,500 : 3,906,250 remain
- 3,906,250: 1,953,125 remain
- 1,953,125: 976,562 (one person gets kicked out because that doesn't divide by 2.
- 976,562 : 488,281
- 244,140 (another kicked out because of division problems)
- 122,070
- 61,035
- 30,517 (another kicked out)
- 15,258 (another kicked out)
- 7,629
- 3,814 (another random kicked out)
- 1907
- 953 (1 kicked out)
- 476
- 238
- 119
- 59 (1 kicked out, which sucks for them because it was a long road to get here)
- 29 (same as before)
- 14 (again)
- 7
- 3 (I would sue for getting kicked out in these next rounds)
- 2
- 1
Once we got to 3 people remaining I think it would be more fair to just have all 3 of them duke it out at the same time and only one can win... can just be kicking people out after they have fought 30 bouts to get to that point!
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I've been told there is a championship called the "One" championship and I wonder if he fought 33 times to get there.
This might seem stupid to you but I don't often see Tweets so when I do see them I like for them to be interesting.
I am also one of those people that automatically presumes most of what I see on the internet is just someone trolling and am a big subscriber to the "dead internet theory."
But anyway, I don't think many people will care but I did the math and yeah, whoever posted that, whoever Dan Go is, his information is correct.
So just rest easy if we are ever faced with a global fighting tournament, at least it will be over in less than a year provided everyone fought once a week or so.
Here's another thought though and I have come up with this after being in a part of the world where the drunken expat community regularly decides to whallop one another after they drink too much: Most people are pretty horrible at fighting. So if you do find yourself getting near a scrap one day be honest with yourself: Can you really do this? Because untrained hands, even if you win, you are probably going to get hurt as well.
I am one of those people that is pretty big but I never really studied any sort of actual fighting. I'm pretty sure if I faced an actual fighter that I would get KO'd pretty rapidly.
If I get booted because math doesn't work, then I'm fighting again. No matter what. Someone is getting punched. LOL
that seems kind of fair to me. Plus if everyone is fighting, who is handling the rounding error anyway?
The question is... Who is going to hand over the belt to the winner?
well, it's not a fight to the death.
I haven't been in a fight since middle school, and I plan on keeping it that way. Especially these days. You just never know what anyone is going to do!
plus let's say you win in glorious Jason Bourne fashion... now you are likely going to jail.
Yes, very true!
That's a pretty cool stat to remember.
I just always remember Fight club quote: "Most people, normal people, do just about anything to avoid a fight." Totally true, I'd say. I'd like to think that's because most people don't want to hurt others, but I suspect the truth is most people don't want to get hurt themselves.
the fear of getting hurt yourself is pretty awful I am sure. I have been in a few rather serious fights when I was young and cocky. In one of the fights I absolutely destroyed the other guy but it didn't take me very long to feel very bad about having done that to another person because I have a conscious. I still feel bad about having done that to this day, more than 30 years later. I reached out to the person many years ago to basically beg for forgiveness. I thought he was the bigger man when he immediately offered his forgiveness and now we talk every now and then.
The other instance was where I bit off way more than I could chew or my mouth wrote a check my ass couldn't cash and the situation was reversed. I was beaten in quite embarrassing fashion. Same story there though, me and the other guy talked years later and laughed about how stupid we were.
People grow up, people start to value life a lot more, people have kids and see the hurt they felt or dealt out in the eyes of their young ones. Fighting is dumb.
The same principle of playing 18 holes of golf starting at $0.01c per hole double or quits. I think you end up with around $1.3K if you win all 18 holes and it doesn't take much to trick someone if you cannot do the numbers.
I recall a math lesson about someone hiring you for a month. You can choose $1000 a day or just 1 penny on the first day and it doubles every day after that... which do you choose? The 1 penny one ends up paying many millions of dollars while the $1000 a day pays $30,000 by the end.