4w ago

Ask the crickets

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Americans and their units
- metric is great until you need to do anything practical with it like converting cricket chirps to degrees ^/s
- !anythingbutmetric@discuss.tchncs.de
Assuming one spherical cricket in a vacuum
- You can't hear a cricket chirp in a vacuum.
  The motor is too loud.
- Ignoring air resistance?
...or count the chirps in 8 seconds and add 4.
Why am I taking 25seconds and dividing by 3? Accuracy?
- My guess would be better approximation as you avoid a "fluke", as 8 second is a very short time where nothing could easily happen even with crickets being present
  
  I'm just bothered they chose divide by 3, instead of 16 seconds divide by 2 which is wayyy easier
- If you count only for 8 seconds, it will be inaccurate, you need to count for 8 and 1/3 seconds!
Wow.
It's zero degrees here in June.
Weird.
- How did you hear negative chirps?
  Can I learn this power?
  
  Try salvia
  
  Using the metric version you can get zero with no chirps. The method doesn't work at all for the current temperature though, you can't get -1°C any way
- Hello fellow southernhemispherian, how does it feel bring safe from nuclear winter?
How do you count just one cricket's chirps? There are usually tons of them.
- Everyone counts their own crickets and then you add the results together.
- Count faster.
Glad to know it's America and crickets that find fahrenheit more convenient for temperature.
- I think that's how we got fahrenheit.
  
  Actually it was originally based on the freezing temperature of a brine and human body temperature.
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fahrenheit
I feel like parentheses don't belong in explaining math if they aren't used appropriately.
- 30 chirps + (added to) 40 = 70
I guess Summer's over, it's 4 degrees celsius where I currently am.
- 0 where I'm at, hell yeah
  
  How did you count negative chirps?
But what species is the cricket?
I was expecting some kind of Duckworth-Lewis formula.
Test or One-Day?

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