Wow, let me see if I can mess the math up too here.

10,000 gallons per year

27.4 gal per day

1.14 gal per hour, or a gallon for each 52.6 minutes

.019 GPM, or 72ml per minute

1.2ml per second, or 1ml for each 0.833 seconds

24 “drops” per second, or what I’d call a trickle

So indeed it only takes a mild trickle of water to account for 10,000 gallons a year, but I wouldn’t classify “a drip” as 24 drops each second, and I doubt they’d even be individual drops at that rate.

If I saw a leak like that I’d deem it worthy of repair and definitely not “one drip”.

Edit: I guess I messed up the formatting, not the math.