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Funfact: This comic mentions Cyndi Lauper by name, and it was published on her birthday… [[Special:Contributions/162.158.38.27|162.158.38.27]] 20:51, 23 June 2022 (UTC)
 
Funfact: This comic mentions Cyndi Lauper by name, and it was published on her birthday… [[Special:Contributions/162.158.38.27|162.158.38.27]] 20:51, 23 June 2022 (UTC)
:Sweet! I'm a big fan of playing ''Time after Time'' on repeat to get into a flow state, so I loved that one. [[Special:Contributions/162.158.166.183|162.158.166.183]] 20:43, 24 June 2022 (UTC)
 
  
 
Looks like someone's math is wrong on the explanation for July 18. I calculated using 4681 and 4763 years and they came out to 51.29 days and 52.19 days, respectively. So then I worked backwards and determined that Randall would actually have to be using a number closer to 5200 years to arrive at the correct result of 57 days. [[User:Dansiman|Dansiman]] ([[User talk:Dansiman|talk]]) 21:49, 23 June 2022 (UTC)
 
Looks like someone's math is wrong on the explanation for July 18. I calculated using 4681 and 4763 years and they came out to 51.29 days and 52.19 days, respectively. So then I worked backwards and determined that Randall would actually have to be using a number closer to 5200 years to arrive at the correct result of 57 days. [[User:Dansiman|Dansiman]] ([[User talk:Dansiman|talk]]) 21:49, 23 June 2022 (UTC)
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Aug 26 needs editing, but I just reset my password and can't fix it. At 4 breaths per minute, 100,000 breaths is 17.36 days. To get 17 days exactly, Randall would need to assume about 4.085 breaths per minute. [[User:Wjw|Wjw]] 08:24, 24 June 2022 (UTC)
 
Aug 26 needs editing, but I just reset my password and can't fix it. At 4 breaths per minute, 100,000 breaths is 17.36 days. To get 17 days exactly, Randall would need to assume about 4.085 breaths per minute. [[User:Wjw|Wjw]] 08:24, 24 June 2022 (UTC)
 
:Most of the calculations are very approximate. [[User:Barmar|Barmar]] ([[User talk:Barmar|talk]]) 14:07, 24 June 2022 (UTC)
 
:Most of the calculations are very approximate. [[User:Barmar|Barmar]] ([[User talk:Barmar|talk]]) 14:07, 24 June 2022 (UTC)
::Many of them were given to subsecond digits of precision, too, so I rounded everything off to two significant digits of days unless there was some compelling reason to have 0, 1, or 3. Don't @ me, because I filled up and homogenized all that column, finally (except for 100,000 breaths, which are slow enough to be what I'm guessing is probably Randall's error.) If someone wants to get a better value for the total duration of ''Star Trek'' than the January, 2021 reference I found by counting all the released episodes since up to the date of the cartoon, please do. [[Special:Contributions/162.158.166.183|162.158.166.183]] 20:26, 24 June 2022 (UTC)
 
:::For ''Star Trek'' total run time, it might be best to count all episodes scheduled for release up until August 14, the date of that specification. [[Special:Contributions/172.70.210.233|172.70.210.233]] 21:02, 24 June 2022 (UTC)
 
  
 
There's a closing /div HTML tag on the front page after the transcript (but not on this page). [[User:Nitpicking|Nitpicking]] ([[User talk:Nitpicking|talk]]) 17:21, 24 June 2022 (UTC)
 
There's a closing /div HTML tag on the front page after the transcript (but not on this page). [[User:Nitpicking|Nitpicking]] ([[User talk:Nitpicking|talk]]) 17:21, 24 June 2022 (UTC)
 
Thoughts on including a "% of error" column in the table?[[Special:Contributions/172.70.130.121|172.70.130.121]] 15:54, 27 June 2022 (UTC)
 
:An additional column would make it look worse on mobile portrait, and a residual error wouldn't really explain anything that readers couldn't get a gist of by eyeballing. [[Special:Contributions/172.70.210.233|172.70.210.233]] 01:31, 3 July 2022 (UTC)
 
:Most of these don't really have a margin of error, they're all based on specific numbers, beyond that most of them can go to a ridiculous number of decimal places (mostly due to the infinite decimal places of pi, e and phi). Rounding to 2 decimal places is sufficient and doesn't count as a "margin of error". [[User:NiceGuy1|NiceGuy1]] ([[User talk:NiceGuy1|talk]]) 23:54, 3 July 2022 (UTC)
 
 
Several entries were rather unspecific, particularly the ones just saying "See day whatever" (and one "Refer"), so I plugged in some numbers. Also, it seems like the Star Trek entry should specify what's included - strange that unlike the others, it doesn't end up under a day less than the target. Also, that entry referred to/used an article which summarized CBR, I replaced it with the detailed article from CBR itself, then listed all the shows and movies, and added the things the article missed. [[User:NiceGuy1|NiceGuy1]] ([[User talk:NiceGuy1|talk]]) 23:54, 3 July 2022 (UTC)
 
: Great work. I wonder if Randall is counting some fan-made Trek. [[Special:Contributions/172.70.211.36|172.70.211.36]] 01:10, 5 July 2022 (UTC)
 

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