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nachiketajoshi t1_jaexluq wrote
Reply to Eli5 if a phone number is 7 digits then how aren't there more people with the same number? by FrozenKyrie
There are something like 335 area codes in USA (first 3 digits).
After that, you have 9000000 possible combinations for a 7-digit number. N=1st×2nd×3rd×4th×5th×6th×7th=9×10×10×10×10×10×10=9×106N=9000000
9000000 x 335 = 3,015,000,000, which is roughly 9x the population of USA. And, we have not yet exhausted all the possible the area code (first 3 digits).
nachiketajoshi t1_ja9hjqx wrote
Reply to Someone who lets you in their lane may be using your car as a body shield for the large truck in front of them instead of the kindness of their heart by The_Expidition
It is OK to do so with at least some vehicles. I usually let Rams get in the lane in the situation you have described.
nachiketajoshi t1_ja6g03s wrote
Reply to you are the sum of 2 parents 4 grandparents.. 8 great grandparents... and so on... so your DNA is composed from millions of people by anirudhsky
True, the basic idea remains but please keep in mind that the number is not always straightforward exponential due to pedigree collapse.
"This paradox is explained by shared ancestors, referred to as pedigree collapse. Instead of consisting of all different individuals, a tree may have multiple places occupied by a single individual. This typically happens when the parents of an ancestor are related to each other (sometimes unbeknownst to themselves). For example, the offspring of two first cousins has at most only six great-grandparents instead of the usual eight. This reduction in the number of ancestors is pedigree collapse. It collapses the ancestor tree into a directed acyclic graph."
nachiketajoshi t1_j9rgri4 wrote
Reply to comment by miker53 in TIL the way NYC has bodegas, Australia has milk bars. Modeled initially on American soda fountains, they’ve been on the decline since the 70s due to competition from supermarkets by idiomaddict
> A priest, a rabbi and Crocodile Dundee walk into a milk bar
The bartender says, ‘What is this, a joke from 1970s?’”
nachiketajoshi t1_jeh03te wrote
Reply to Google Drive does a surprise rollout of file limits, locking out some users by hugglenugget
With a 5 Million items limit, not sure how many people with normal use would be affected.
"Error 403: This account has exceeded the creation limit of 5 million items. To create more items, move items to the trash and delete them forever."