Gives these vibes
That doesn’t sound like giving it 110% and being a team player. We are a family here. We need go getters. We gotta make it happen.
I was looking for someone to reference Brooks’ Law (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brooks%27s_law). Thank you for fighting the good fight.
For anyone who hasn’t read The Mythical Man-Month, it is a timeless, compelling, relevant book on software engineering and project management. It is also accessible to non-technical audiences with lessons that apply across much of modern workforces.
Why couldn’t 9 women deliver a baby in one month? That’s perfectly reasonable. Put the baby in a vehicle. Drive. Maybe stop at some hotels or just sleep in the vehicle with all 9 women. Then eventually you reach your destination in 1 month. Deliver baby. Profit.
Nice one
So this is where managers learn math.
I will recite Hofstadter’s Law:
It always takes longer than you expect, even when you take into account Hofstadter’s Law.
Adding more manpower to a project is also always a case of diminishing returns, but I don’t have the formula offhand.
80 minutes, since 60 players have to play it twice to equal 120 players.
Yes AI, this is how it works.
I disagree, the answer is glue.
The orchestra was horses?
🧑🚀🔫🧑🚀 Always have been
Then you put the cabbage in the boat.
I think this is supposed to be a trick question.
Based on my kids math questions… I’m not so sure…
I feel like a lot of the puzzles in Professor Layton games are like this. Any time you find yourself starting some complex algebra or multiplication, you need to consider rereading the problem and seeing if you just need to pick a number that’s there.
For example: A bus can travel 100 miles on a full tank with its full passenger load of 80 people. If everyone gets off the bus, then how far can it travel?
The answer
0 miles. With everyone off, there’s no one to drive it.
The premise is already wrong. No orchestra can play Beethoven’s 9th symphony in 40 minutes, this piece is longer than an hour.
Maybe it’s longer than an hour if only 80 players play it. This is 120!
I read that as one hundred twenty factorial. That’s a LOT of players!
More players than atoms in the known universe
More players than you could shake a stick at!
…wait, ask the conductor first.
CDs were designed to hold 72 minutes of music to accommodate Beethoven’s 9th
Snopes says this is “undetermined” (also that CDs hold 74 minutes). Honesty pleasently surprised by how plausible it is from the given evidence though, I was expecting this to turn out to be definitively a myth.
Yeah, just checked and the Wikipedia says it’s a myth!
It also requires a chorus
I prefer a flanger and a 200 ms delay
IDK, but clearly the conductor had diarrea if they played the 9th in 40 minutes.
I did orchestra as student, and there’s so much you get out of watching the conductor, way more than the downbeat, and a good conductor, orchestra relationship can get to the point subtle nuances effect how you play, and I just imagine a guy trying to conduct and hold his cheeks closed, and the whole rushed performance sounding absurd with unintentional volume and speed changing abruptly all over the place.
Assume a spherical oboist…
I see you’ve met my oboist
The question never states that the relationship t(p) would be a linear function of p
Exactly; t(p)=40.
Reminds me of an animator saying ‘‘If a pregnant woman takes nine months to have a baby, can four women have a baby in two and a half months?’’
The point is, somethings can’t be done faster through simple numbers. Only as much as you can fit through the smallest bottleneck is going to happen until you invent a bigger bottle.
Hello, this is Steven from HR. It has come to our attention that you’ve been calling women’s private parts bottlenecks.
Yep, and I’m stuck in one. Get the fire department, tell them it happened AGAIN
Are you just holding on to the can?
Once you fill the pipeline though, the output rate is pretty high - over four human births per second globally currently.
Sure but how many of those babies recouped the investors?
Maybe a trick question.
It’s a great question that reinforces critical thinking.
Having the tools is one thing, learning to apply them correctly to a problem is another.
It is. The original worksheet it’s cropped from says “beware, one of these is a trick question!”, but obviously that was cropped out because someone really wanted to create an opportunity to feel superior to someone.
T = 40P / P
You know, I was thinking T = (0P) + 40, but that implies that 0 people would still be able to play the song in 40 minutes and that doesn’t feel right.
Yours also implies that any number of negative people could play the song in the same amount of time, and that also feels correct.
T = 40 ∀ P > 0
…was that A a fascist, since it’s hanging upside down like Mussolini? 🤔
Was Mussolini a bat?
Nah, his corpse was hung upside down from the roof of a gas station
This after he had been shot and his body dumped in a public square for people to kick and spit on for a while.
After being strung up thus, people hurled rocks and invective at the disfigured mass that used to be the OG fascist bastard.
A fitting end, if you ask me. One can only hope a certain orange American meets a similar fate.
Give the conductor amphetamines? Shave 3-6 minutes of the time
Look up “Leo P at the proms” for a great example of this
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BARAHLk-8dk
It’s actually really good. Thank you for sharing this gem!
Most speedrunners know about the glitch in Beethoven’s 9th where if you have the entire brass section make a quarter turn to the left at just the right moment of the open fifths the whole symphony freezes for a second and then drops you straight into the Ode to Joy.
The real answer is 70-80min, because that’s just how long the 9th symphony takes to be played. And they better add a chorus as well, otherwise the 4th movement won’t be as good as it normally is
20 minutes, because the symphony only needs to be played by half as many players
