What number are you?

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What number are you?

Post by Geoff » Thu Oct 27, 2011 2:27 pm

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-15391515

When I was born, I was the 2,761,773,197th person alive on Earth. (yeah, I know the level of accuracy is silly, but still, kinda fun!)
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Re: What number are you?

Post by Rum » Thu Oct 27, 2011 2:29 pm

Holy shit - there were only 2.5 billion people on the planet when I was born. I thought the roads were getting busier..
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Re: What number are you?

Post by Jason » Thu Oct 27, 2011 2:32 pm

I am the 79,452,570,212th person to walk the face of the earth! (according to the BBC :Erasb: )

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Re: What number are you?

Post by Tyrannical » Thu Oct 27, 2011 2:33 pm

It doesn't work.
The "go" button stays grey :hmmm:
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Post by Mysturji » Thu Oct 27, 2011 2:34 pm

3 billion and a bit.
And I can expect to live about 3 years longer if I move back to Canada.
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Re: What number are you?

Post by Rum » Thu Oct 27, 2011 2:34 pm

Tyrannical wrote:It doesn't work.
The "go" button stays grey :hmmm:
Day Month Year - all in numbers?

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Re: What number are you?

Post by Geoff » Thu Oct 27, 2011 2:35 pm

Tyrannical wrote:It doesn't work.
The "go" button stays grey :hmmm:
probably means you're dead...
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Re: What number are you?

Post by Coito ergo sum » Thu Oct 27, 2011 2:36 pm

When you were born, you were the:
3,499,308,528th
person alive on Earth
77,517,132,445th
person to be born since time began...

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Re: What number are you?

Post by FBM » Thu Oct 27, 2011 2:37 pm

When you were born, you were the:
3,163,311,751st
person alive on Earth
76,928,365,734th
person to have lived since history began
Written, recorded history, they mean? Or the whole 13.7 billion?
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Re: What number are you?

Post by PsychoSerenity » Thu Oct 27, 2011 2:38 pm

When you were born, you were the:
4,976,221,709th
person alive on Earth
79,865,722,779th
person to have lived since history began
Both numbers have been calculated using UN Population Division figures. The first is an estimate of how many people were alive on your date of birth. It is one possible value based on global population figures and estimates of growth rates over time. Data before 1950 is less accurate than figures after that date. The second number includes calculations based on the methodology of scholar Carl Haub, who estimated how many people had been alive since 50,000 B.C. His calculation has been amended by the UN to include additional points in time.
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Re: What number are you?

Post by Coito ergo sum » Thu Oct 27, 2011 2:43 pm

PordFrefect wrote:I am the 79,452,570,212th person to walk the face of the earth! (according to the BBC :Erasb: )
Think of the implications that number has to "Caesars Last Breath" Phenomenon? http://www.npr.org/templates/story/stor ... Id=5280420 Or, the lesser known, and less appealing "Caesar's Last Fart" Phenomenon....

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Re: What number are you?

Post by Animavore » Thu Oct 27, 2011 2:45 pm

No. 1.

Of course :coffee:
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Re: What number are you?

Post by Feck » Thu Oct 27, 2011 2:45 pm

Tyrannical wrote:It doesn't work.
The "go" button stays grey :hmmm:
It only works for Human beings .
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Re: What number are you?

Post by Jason » Thu Oct 27, 2011 3:17 pm

Coito ergo sum wrote:
PordFrefect wrote:I am the 79,452,570,212th person to walk the face of the earth! (according to the BBC :Erasb: )
Think of the implications that number has to "Caesars Last Breath" Phenomenon? http://www.npr.org/templates/story/stor ... Id=5280420 Or, the lesser known, and less appealing "Caesar's Last Fart" Phenomenon....
I breathe and fart imperious excellence! :dance:

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Re: What number are you?

Post by hadespussercats » Thu Oct 27, 2011 3:55 pm

I was the
4,065,995,918th
person alive on Earth
78,422,417,573rd
person to have lived since history began

I remember the first time I learned the world's population in school, they said it was 4.5 billion...
The green careening planet
spins blindly in the dark
so close to annihilation.

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