#fun with numbers

[class1akids]

Global poll - week 1 - some observations:

The Top 7 are identical in the global vote and Japan, which means the majority of the votes are still from Japan. Asia and North America also seems to have a big impact on the vote.

Bakugou is first place everywhere except Middle East

Deku’s is on average safe 2nd

Shoto’s 3rd place looks a bit less safe - especially as Aizawa grabbed a very surprising 2nd spot in Asia

Dabi is also doing really well, but he needs more votes in Asia and Japan to get closer to Top 3

Kirishima and Hawks are safe Top 10 but I don’t think they have a chance for 3rd spot

The lower 3 ranks of the Top 10 seem to be contested by 8 characters: All Might, Uraraka, Shigaraki, Toga, Monoma, Shinsou, Kaminari and Endeavor.

Japan had Toga and Endeavor in Top 10, but the global polls pulled in Ochako and Shigaraki instead

Endeavor especially is very split - he’s Top 10ish in Japan, Asia, Middle East and Africa, but is only 20ish or not ranked in the West.

Out of the Japanese Top 20 only Tokoyami didn’t rank who was swapped with Mirko

The Top 10 will get an illustration, so don’t get discouraged and vote for your faves!!!! There is a decent chance to get the LoV Trio all in Top 10 as well as the Savior Squad!!!

[thevideogameartarchive]

Educational TV 'Fun With Numbers' Atari 2600 Catalog

[samanddean76]

Sixty-Seven - Now It's Perfect 2024

Title: Sixty-Seven

Ship: Dean Winchester/Sam Winchester

Rating: Mature | Word Count: 1,967

Tags: Post-Season/Series Finale, Dean Winchester In Heaven, Sam Winchester In Heaven, Reunion Sex, Sex in/on The Impala, Top Dean Winchester/Bottom Sam Winchester, Angst with a Happy Ending, Bacon, Fun With Numbers, Written for Now It's Perfect 2024

Summary: Numbers had always been important to them. They could mean the difference between life and death. Yet, most of the time Dean would scoff at any deeper meaning. But Sam had believed. Since he was little, he had trusted in things that were larger and grander than himself. And now his faith was about to be rewarded.

I would like to thank @digitalmeowmix for organizing this year's round of Now It's Perfect. It was so much fun to participate, and I hope everyone will check out all of the amazing stories in the collection!

Story on AO3 | Collection on AO3

[scarletswalking]

The first argument is that since the sea level is getting higher, all measurements will adjust with it, simply raising all elevation measurements by one foot. So a mile above sea level would be 5281 feet as the adjustment is cohesive across the board.

The second measurement is that nothing will actually change the elevation measurements - the measured areas do not move anywhere - it's just the sea level changing. So a mile above sea level would be 5279 feet because even though sea level has risen, the mile high city has not.

Please reblog for audience. This is a high stakes bet (a 2$ bill)

[the-exhausted-xexandaler]

So the Nintendo Switch 2 is estimated to come out on April 2nd 2025 yeah? The original Switch came out March 3rd 2017. That means it will have been 8 years and 30 days (since March has 31 days) between the two devices releases.

Oh but it gets better. When did the OLED come out? October 8th of 2021. That is roughly 7 months from the previous March and 6 from the following April.

To translate this in a way that makes coherent sense, that means the Nintendo Switch OLED came out both in the middle for release year between the 1 and 2, but also basically middle of release month.

And this is why I can prove I have ADHD without explaining any diagnoses (even though I do have a medical diagnosis somewhere). Name one other neurological condition that analyzes something so mundane instead of doing their actual housework.

[retrocgads]

UK 1987

[oakandgumtrees]

Okay, but how many WORDS of fic are there? A proposed method for estimating total word count for a set of fics on Ao3

Some statistics are really easy to find on Ao3. Some are harder.

The word count of an individual work? Easy. The word count of a group of works? You have to add it up manually.

Or do you?

(Note: All statistics in this post are from data gathered on the 28th-29th July, 2023, and will be out of date in the specifics. My focus is on trends.)

If we only had an average

If we knew what the AVERAGE (or mean) word count for a group of works was , we could simply multiply by the number of works, and we'd have the total!

But we don't have the average.

We do, however, have the ability to sort a group of fics by word count, do some arithmetic to figure out what the middle item in that list is, and check that individual fic. (E.g. in a list of five fics, what is the word count of the third-longest work?)

This is the median - surely that's going to be close to the average, right?

Unfortunately, no.

Wordcount Georg is an outlier adn is difficult to count

You know that one MASSIVE fic? The one that's, like, half a million words, and a hundred chapters, and it's still going?

You thought of one straight away, didn't you?

Well, it turns out a LOT of fandoms have that fic. Or several of them.

But they're usually very few compared to a much LARGER number of very short works. Take the MCU fandom. When I checked, only 1% of MCU fics were over 100,000 words - and 25% were under 1000 words.

The median is usually close to the average when the distribution of a set of numbers looks like this:

But the distribution of the length of fics in most fandoms looks more like this:

In that sort of distribution, the median and the mean can be a LONG way apart.

A median can still tell you a lot about the most common kinds of fic. But it's going to completely miss all those super-long outliers, and if you want to find the TOTAL word count, you need those.

Counting things the cheating-cheater way

I would like to propose a method I've been calling 'multiple median estimation'.

Here's how it works:

Sort your fics by word count, then divide the list into chunks. Ten percent of the total number is often a good size.

Find the fic in the middle of each chunk to get the median word count for THAT set of fics.

When a chunk has a median SUBSTANTIALLY bigger than the previous chunk, break it up into smaller pieces, and repeat.

Once you have all your medians, multiply each one by the number of fics in that chunk, and add together to get your estimated total.

Let's see how that pans out across a few different fandoms...in part 2!

[sarcasticdolphin]

Elisabeth fic stats part 2

So as the year is over I decided to update my spreadsheet from earlier this year. And the numbers are in.

(Data set is Elisabeth das Musical fics in English on Ao3 as of 1/1/2024):

Average: 3391 words per fic.

Median: 1314 words per fic.

Mode: 0 words per fic.

Total Words: 1258426 words.

Total Fics: 370 fics.

So there were more words written in 2023 than in 2022, but not by much. 316739 words in 2022 and 352541 in 2023. (I counted the drabble fic as 100k to 2023 and the rest to 2022, which is roughly correct).

Congrats to all of us that wrote fic this year!

[laf-outloud]

I love numbers because it gives me a clear idea. So thank you for making the list.. Not just for the convention ones, I love it when you make them for Walker as well.

You're very welcome! I like numbers because they're objective. Interpretations of the numbers may be subjective, but at least everyone's working with the same data!

Fun little tidbit... I hated my Statistics class in college, lol!

[hebrewbyinbal]

Fun with #numbers counting to 10 in #hebrew or reverse them and you are ready for the next #countdown

[class1akids]

9th Popularity Poll Recount results

The big change:

AFO jumped to the 18th place !!

Dynama made top 50 (Bakugou lost about 150 votes)

Full results:

1 - Bakugo (23,312) 2 - Deku (18,488) 3 - Shoto (13,478) 4 - Dabi (6848) 5 - Hawks (5755) 6 - Endeavor (4973) 7 - Kirishima (4827) 8-Iida (3420) 9 - Uraraka (3315) 10 - Shoji (3279)

11 - Monoma (3204) 12 - Kaminari (2767) 13 - Aizawa (2745) 14 - Shinso (2720) 15 - All Might (2499) 16 - Toga (2263) 17 - Shigaraki (2255) 18 - AFO (2106) 19 - Jiro (1879) 20 - Sero (1613)

21 - Rody (1268) 22 - Mic (1121) 23 - Tokoyami (912) 24 - Momo (801) 25 - Mirko (723) 26 - Shindo (721) 27 - Tsuyu (587) 28 - Chronostasis (566) 29 - Hagakure (561) 30 - Tamaki (517)

31 - Mirio 32 - Overhaul 33 - Mutant lady from the Paranormal Liberation Front 34 - Mineta 35 - Shishikura 36 - Mustard 37 - Nejire 38 - Mr. Compress 39 - Best Jeanist 40 - Kacchan brainwashed by Mahoro

41 - Nagant 42 - Ashido 43 - Stain 44 - Geten 45 - Ojiro 46-Horikoshi 47 - Twice 48 - Dynama 49 - Gentle 50 - Nemoto

51 - Edgeshot 52 - Flect Turn 53 - Bakudog 54 - Tokuda 55 - Tsukauchi 56 - Fukidashi 57 - Fatgum 58 - Aoyama 59 - Yoichi 60 - En

61 - La Brava 62 - Dekusheep 63 - Setsuno 64 - Natsuo 65 - Shirakumo 66 - Shotocat 67 - Honenuki and Kudo 69 - Hatsume 70 - Magne

71 - Kodai 72 - Mutant from the PLF who took off his arm in chapter 370 73 - Eri 74 - Gang Orca 75 - Nighteye 76 - Tetsutetsu 77 - The Bakugo that Horikoshi drew for Okamoto's birthday 78 - Deku in Mirko's costume 79 - Fuyumi and Spinner

81 - Star and Sato 83 - Burnin' and Mera 85 - Mt. Lady 86 - Ms. Joke 87 - Ordinary lady 88 - Midnight and Cementoss 90 - Rin

91 - Skeptic 92 - Inasa 93 - Hound Dog 94 - Anpanman 95 - Kendo 96 - Koda 97 - Kido 98 - Melissa

99 (12 votes) - Rappa and Majestic and Shinomori

102 (11 votes) - Camie and Bakugo's sweat sphere

104 (10 votes) - Dark Shadow, Tensei, Hawk's eyeliners, Beros and Aizawa's mustache

109 (9 votes)- Inko, No. 13, Mandalay, Deku's freckles

113 (8 votes) - Gran Torino, Koichi, Imamura the editor, Kaibara, Wolfram

118 (7 votes) - Kinoko, Mitsuki, Manual, Reiko, Shiozaki, Shoda

124 (6 votes) - Sun guy from the daycare, Bruce, Awase, Sokiru, Zookeeper, Powerloader and the U.A. robot that carried Rei

131 (5 votes) - Bakugo's gauntlets, Setsuna, All Might's mom, Flower bakugo, Nezu, Rei, Illusionroki, Tsuburaba, Baby For One, Bakugo's quirk and the support item All Might gave to Bakugo

142 (4 votes) - Pony, The Shie Hassaikai's boss, Slime Todoroki, Nomu, Hercules, Aoi Hana, the female hero who got licked by Stain, Intelli, Deku's cheek, Jiro's bass, All Might card

153 (3 votes) - Recovery Girl, Kuroiro, Nana, Curator, Y-san from Chiba, Mon, Muscular, Gojo Satoru, Crust, Kurogiri, Okamoto, Shishido, Tameda, Keriage (bakugo's friend), Miyashita, Baby Shoto, Kurumada, Toya (not dabi), Yanase Takashi, Yokoyari Mengo, Shinso's friend from 1-C, Abandoned Bakugo, the electric villain from USJ who defeated Kaminari, the skull-mask guy from the PLF, Kamui Woods, Super Dog, Tokoyami reacting to Illusion Hawks in chapter 380, Bakugo's tie, Bakugo's hero costume knee thing

182 (2 votes) - One For All, Roboco, Death Arms, Twice (the kpop one), Bakugo's shoulder scar, Horikoshi's hands, Wash, Deku's gloves, Shoto's ice leopard, Deku from the Midoriyas (not Izuku Midoriya), 1-A, kids from Masegaki, Nine, Kota, Redestro, Ganriki, Banjo, Itejiro, Todo Aoi, Pino, Takahiro, Giran, Katsuma, Agoyamato, Fuwa, Tamashi Moko, Sansa, Curious, Everything All Might loves, the girl who was with Kashiko Kashi, Tomura's mole, Dragon Kirishima, Sanctum, Rokuhira Chihiro, the civilian with the All Might shirt, Sato's chiffon cake, Kacchan Eri, Tabe, Fujino Shiroha, Fatgum's sidekick, Lady from the PLF's violet squad who was hiding her mouth, mutant-like PLF member in a suit holding a katana, Trumpet, Kashiko Kashi, Demi-human lady, the pork cutlet bento All Might made, Mineta's sticky balls, Moca, Deku's shoes, Kaminari's scar, Ochako holding flour, Roro Soul, Lala Soul, the star man from chapter 1, Garaki, Deku's Chiikawa

(TL by Rukasu on Twitter)

[daisukitoo]

1³+2³+3³+4³+5³+6³+7³+8³+9³= 2025

not to be a number nerd on main but 2025 (45^2) will be the only square year most of us ever experience. the last one was 1936 and the next one will be 2116

[retrocgads]

UK 1987

[agnesandhilda]

yeah this is a self-evident biological hierarchy. that's why we have to enforce it with violence

[badolmen]

People against piracy fail to realize that no, I can’t just ‘buy it.’ They stopped making DVDs and Blu-Rays. They’re barely offering digital copies for download. I am not spending money I could use for food or bills to pay for a subscription service just so I can always have access to a beloved piece of media. Especially not when the service will remove media on a whim without concern for how the loss of access to that piece will make its artistic conservation nigh impossible.

For example, I recently learned that Disney+ had an original film called Crater. It’s scifi, family friendly, and seems cool - I would love to buy it as a holiday gift for my little brother! But: it’s exclusive to D+ and THEY REMOVED IT LITERALLY MONTHS AFTER ITS RELEASE.

The ONLY way I can directly access this film is through piracy. The ONLY available ‘copies’ of this film are hosted on piracy websites. Disney will NEVER release it in theaters, or as something to buy, and it may NEVER return to the streaming service. It will be LOST because we aren’t allowed to purchase it for personal viewing. If I can’t pay to own it, I won’t pay for the privilege of losing it when corporate decides to put it in a vault.

So yes, I’m going to pirate and support piracy.

Edit: if you are able, use $5 you would otherwise use for a streaming subscription to donate to a GazaFunds campaign.