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Erock482 t1_ja4auqb wrote

From the Pentagon to Vietnam is about 8,758 miles

Which is 554,906,880 inches

Which would be $5,549,068,800,000

Which would put our Marine in 3rd place in terms of countries GDP, ahead of Japan and Behind China

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Human_Information166 t1_ja50tyx wrote

r/theydidthemath

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Roku-Hanmar t1_ja52131 wrote

r/theydidthemonstermath

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largiuss_dickuiss t1_ja5cybj wrote

r/itwasagraveyardgraph

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LoopDeDoopLaLoop t1_ja5edsf wrote

r/burgerkingstaff

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SMM9673 t1_ja5xq5y wrote

r/itcaughtoninaflath

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... it was this or r/itcaughtoninamath

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Maxils t1_ja6ifkw wrote

it cosined in a flash

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SMM9673 t1_ja6ij24 wrote

DAMMIT THAT ONE'S SO GOOD

WHY IS THAT NOT A THING

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Maxils t1_ja6ipp6 wrote

it is, r/itcosinedinaflash

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SMM9673 t1_ja6itb4 wrote

Oh, thank God

It wasn't showing up on my end

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Nick85er t1_ja5bv9m wrote

Didnt specify the county in Virginia, or the province in Viet Nam. Sooooooooo Im gonna raise your estimate by $1.00 and totes win.

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Erock482 t1_ja5ctwa wrote

Pentagon is a specific place, but I’ll give you the specific location in Vietnam.

Best I can do is $0.50

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Usof1985 t1_ja5onvy wrote

The Pentagon covers 34 acres. I'm going to say $1.25

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Lazerius t1_ja6c10d wrote

The center point is an easy thing to figure out using GIS software.

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Nielsly t1_ja8u3rh wrote

But they are unlikely to be at the center point of the pentagon

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Onifon t1_ja6ejvw wrote

They would have to go to Vietnam, find his balls, bring them back to verify, and then measure the distance. It really would only be a few rooms over or the next lab over. That is if the balls were still in tact enough to verify. Otherwise it’s dick to lack of balls which would make the monetary sum undefined and would not be payable. Knowing the government and how they treat some of our vets, they would just claim that the exact location of his balls cannot be confirmed and deny his compensation all together. The marine thought he was being smart but he just screwed himself.

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lallepot t1_ja79h69 wrote

In that case you’ll need to enter 0 in distance

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Onifon t1_ja7lb7z wrote

When they held his balls in a jar up next to his dick, he knew he messed up.

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FillThisEmptyCup t1_ja51pxr wrote

Except it’s not on their body no more.

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mojomcm t1_ja5xip4 wrote

Which is exactly the reason the government gave to avoid paying this massive amount of money

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thenewcomputer t1_ja6j5od wrote

I would give up my balls for 5 trillion dollars. wow, I'm such a whore, I just learned my price

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Illusi t1_ja7lfks wrote

An overestimate though. That is about the distance following the Earth's surface. But in 3D the distance is smaller.

The 3D distance, piercing through the Earth, is actually about 6973 miles, or 417,876,814 inches.

This is obtained by taking the geo-coordinates of the Pentagon (38.87091,-77.05588) and around the middle of Vietnam (17.5938,106.4014). Take those angles into the trigonometric functions gives us 3D coordinates around the unit sphere for the Pentagon (0.174398369,−0.758777835,0.62756785) and Vietnam (−0.269156822,0.914433935,0.302266744). With Pythagoras, the distance between those is 1,761306232. Multiply this by the mean radius of the Earth (3958.8 miles) for an approximation of the 3D distance: 6973 miles.

417,876,814 inches would give this general $4,178,768,140,000. That's in 4th place in terms of nominal GDP, between Japan and Germany.

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KylarSternn t1_ja78kcb wrote

It would be significantly cheaper to launch an expedition to exhume his balls, develop the tech to revitalize them, and then reattach them.

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