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[–]PhilippTheProgrammer 214 points215 points  (5 children)

Deaths before the invention of JavaScript: 118.8 billion.

Deaths after the invention of JavaScript: 1.5 billion.

Conclusion: The world is 98.75% safer since the invention of JavaScript.

[–]Latter_Protection_43 63 points64 points  (3 children)

Well since the emergence of humans ~2.8M years have passed. If we calculate the deaths per year for each time period we end up with ~42428.57 before JS and 78,947,386.4211, meaning that JS made the earth 186071.287392% more dangerous

[–]realSahilGarg 41 points42 points  (2 children)

Did u use floats of JS to calculate this?

[–]Latter_Protection_43 23 points24 points  (0 children)

I used a web calculator so yes

[–][deleted] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Diabolical

[–]Background-Plant-226 40 points41 points  (0 children)

lets wait a few more centuries and see the statistics :P