Oct 26 06
Good news: Vampires are Mathematically Impossible

October 31 is drawing near and the Halloween spirit is prowling the streets. Soon you will see little kids turn into vampires as they haunt you for candies. What if vampires were real and those little kids weren’t haunting you for candies but for blood? What would happen to the entire human race? Answer, we’d long be gone of the face of planet Earth.

Good news though is that vampires are mathematically impossible according to one scientist named Costas Efthimiou. His logic goes like this…

On Jan 1, 1600, the human population was 536,870,911. If the first vampire came into existence that day and bit one person a month, there would have been two vampires by Feb. 1, 1600. A month later there would have been four, and so on. In just two-and-a-half years the original human population would all have become vampires with nobody left to feed on.

It’s actually simple Math. Try keep on doubling a number and you’ll easily find out how his logic makes sense. But what if vampires also eat other creatures and not just humans? Well, that’s another story…

Read more about the Mathematical Impossibility of Vampires at LiveScience.com

Tirado de http://blog.mikelopez.info/2006/10/26/good-news-vampires-are-mathematically-impossible/

Hahaha... essa de vampiros matematicamente impossíveis já aparecia na enciclopédia Mundo da Criança, volume 13: Matemágica. De maneira ilustrada falava-se em PG. Páginas mais pra frente tinha a idéia de PA com a multiplicação de uma população de coelhos. Aliás bem legal essa enciclopédia pra uma criança de apartamento.

depoimento de uma criança de aprtamento. eu li todos os nove volumes da enciclopédia Disney (o voleme 8 - História, váááárias vezes), e a biblioteca do escoteiro-mirim...

\O/ Eu tb li o manual do escoteiro mirim....

Mas minha especialização era turma da mônica