Wednesday, November 19, 2008

Thing I learned

Have you felt like you've been walking forever? If so maybe your not that far off. According to http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~bingbin/ the average person walks the equivalent of 5 times around the equator. To put this in perspective let me tell you that the earth is 7,926 miles around. Five times 7,926 is 39630, so the average person walks 39,630 miles in their life. My guess is that the average life span for a human is around 75 years. 39,603 divided by 75 is 528.4, which means that you walk approximately 528.4. There are 365 days in a year, so 528.4 divided by 365 is about 1.44. So by my calculations, you walk approximately 1.44 miles a day.

2 comments:

LuckyGirl108 said...

Thats really cool but also a lot of numbers. I never knew that. And dont forget, thats just the average person. What if you walked about 2 miles a day? Think about how many times that would be! Wow...

Catherine's blog said...

Wow. I'm impressed that you can do all that math. In your head??