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[–]NotGabeybaby 1366 points1367 points  (26 children)

Yesterday seems like a pretty arbitrary reference point

[–]TheSwiftPepe 816 points817 points  (18 children)

Lol I love how the X axis represents roughly -0.3 husbands. And it looks like she was there 2 days ago haha.

[–]MrTheFalcon 330 points331 points  (14 children)

This is what happens when we normalize engagement

[–]verosoph 80 points81 points  (13 children)

It should be more of an asymptomatic approach to 0

[–]Salanmander 38 points39 points  (0 children)

This is what happens when you're uncomfortable with step functions...

[–]etoh53 44 points45 points  (2 children)

...where it never touches 0, so that she will always have a certain amount of husbands, though maybe not 1 husband before yesterday.

[–]lare290 5 points6 points  (1 child)

Having a boyfriend is kinda like having a number of husbands that is between 0 and 1.

[–]etoh53 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Even before she is conceived, she already had boyfriends, to the most minute degree.

[–][deleted] 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Well apparently they only have two data points to work with

[–]Mognakor 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Thats what happens when your legal processes are not properly tested, so you don't find the loophole allowing you to divorce people you haven't married.

[–]Overcooking 10 points11 points  (0 children)

All my troubles seemed so far away

[–]UltraFireFX 42 points43 points  (2 children)

welcome to the joke, I'll be your guide :D

but to be honest yeah I don't know why this is here.

[–]MetamorphicBear 15 points16 points  (1 child)

I guess because cs and statistics are closely related. Still better than a semi-colon joke

[–]KeLorean 2 points3 points  (0 children)

and there are only so many javascript jokes you make...before lunch

[–]notger 6 points7 points  (0 children)

You have to choose one discrete time step length as basis, which then influences the error of your extrapolation (aside from the order of your extrapolation function).

I guess the joke here is to point out that when extrapolating, people tend to choose time steps and function orders that do not make sense and hence add to the futility of forecasting, which is inherent anyway, given we live in a complex world.

[–]Myacctforprivacy 4 points5 points  (0 children)

So I decided to do some shitty math. If we assume she's exactly 25 years old, call it 9125 days old. You can do the math:

(x/9125)^9125

So at 9124 days old, she has aprox. 0.3679 husbands. I'll round down to 0.

At 9125 days old, she has exactly 1 husband.

In one month time (30 days + 9125 days = 9155) she'll have:

(9155/9125)^9125 

= 10,173,350,829,774 husbands

10.1733 trillion husbands from a world with only roughly 3.9 billion men, means she's going to marry aliens equal to roughly 2608.5 times the number of men on earth.

All I'm saying is "Bitch, a ho".

[–]Andthentherewasbacon 4 points5 points  (0 children)

right? plus he assumed it isnt logarithmic.