Reminiscing about the good ol' Mooting days...

[trolls' bane]

Originally Posted by Lotesse

You yourself are already becoming an OG, trolls' bane, you know it? Look, you joined Feb. '03 - definitely OG.

Yep! That's me. Gosh! Do you realize that the longer I'm here, the more the percentage of the time I've spent here to Entmoot's age decreases?
Now I've been here about 45% of Entmoot's age, one day that will be less than 1%! Can you beleive it? Although, I think that's going to be in like 35 years, so don't hold...ah...my breath.

[Last Child of Ungoliant]

the good old days were when i still enjoyed mooting

[The last sane person]

and you dont anymore? Actually...I understand that. At times I just need a break.

[E, LoR]

Originally Posted by The last sane person

and you dont anymore? Actually...I understand that. At times I just need a break.

i can understand that too. im quite enjoying it right now.. makes me happy hehe...

[gollum9630]

Originally Posted by trolls' bane

Yep! That's me. Gosh! Do you realize that the longer I'm here, the more the percentage of the time I've spent here to Entmoot's age decreases?
Now I've been here about 45% of Entmoot's age, one day that will be less than 1%! Can you beleive it? Although, I think that's going to be in like 35 years, so don't hold...ah...my breath.

call me crazy, but this doesnt seem right to me. If you were here since day 1 then u would have been here for 100% of entmoots age. If you were here since day 2 it would have been 50%, then 66% and so on.

anywho, there are so many people that were here when i first started posting that no oinger that i cant even name them all, but there were definately fun times, especialy argueing with JD over hockey

[Nurvingiel]

Gollum is right, those clever Canadians.

The percentage of Entmoot's life that you've been here is x/N where x = the number of days you've been here, and N = is the days Entmoot has been around.

Okay, you've been here since Februrary 13, 2003, so that's... 1122 days. (Because 2004 was a leap year).

But I can't find the day Entmoot was started on, so I PM'd HOBBIT.

edited because i made a mistake

[Falagar]

If I should venture a guess, I'd say it was...oh, I don't know...a bit before 06:16 AM the 19th of July, 1999?



According to this thread, at any rate.

[Nurvingiel]

Thanks Fal! That means Entmoot has been around for 2415 days.

So you've been around for 46.5% of Entmoot's life I've got. But 45...46... who's counting.

I really should go get some fresh air. Otherwise I'd stick around to figure out what x equals in:

1122+x/2415+x = 0.01

[gollum9630]

Originally Posted by Nurvingiel

Gollum is right, those clever Canadians.

not clever, crazy

[The last sane person]

or just bored...

[Nurvingiel]

I'm never bored! If I ever do get bored, I just do a photomanip of a Nazgul holding a bouquet of flowers. Maybe I should give these to Frodo

HOBBIT PM'd me and said the Moot was founded on September 19, 1999 so I need to fix my calculation a bit. Entmoot has actually been online for 2353 days.

My original equation was also wrong. I am now really curious about how to solve this. I'm having a fairly long discussion with my friend in MSN trying to figure it out.

[HOBBIT]

september is the 9th month of the year Fal. July is 7th. You found the correct topic though.

[trolls' bane]

Originally Posted by gollum9630

call me crazy, but this doesnt seem right to me. If you were here since day 1 then u would have been here for 100% of entmoots age. If you were here since day 2 it would have been 50%, then 66% and so on.

anywho, there are so many people that were here when i first started posting that no oinger that i cant even name them all, but there were definately fun times, especialy argueing with JD over hockey

Well...Hmm...Perhaps I should have described it differently...can't think of any other way.
What I mean is that if I joined directly between it's starting date and now, that would be 50% of Entmoot's age, say (for example) I joined 5 years ago and Entmoot is 10 years old, that would be 50%. Let's say (for instance, again, because this is highly exaggerated though I hope it to be true one day) that Entmoot is around for 100 years, making me a 95-year mooter, so then I am only 5%...ah..."younger" (for lack of a better word, because I know I am much older) than Entmoot.

[Nurvingiel]

Aaargh, I finally figured it out. My friend and I had a geeky discussion around the formula (1122 + x)/(2353 +x) = 0.01, which gives a negative number.

We can't have a negative answer! But after much discussion we realized... this is a limit problem. And that the limit approaches 1, not 0!

TB, there isn't a day in the future where the amount of time you have been at Entmoot is 1% of its total existence because the longer it's around, the higher that percentage will be, not lower.

I am so smart. S-M-R-T...

[trolls' bane]

Originally Posted by Nurvingiel

Aaargh, I finally figured it out. My friend and I had a geeky discussion around the formula (1122 + x)/(2353 +x) = 0.01, which gives a negative number.

We can't have a negative answer! But after much discussion we realized... this is a limit problem. And that the limit approaches 1, not 0!

TB, there isn't a day in the future where the amount of time you have been at Entmoot is 1% of its total existence because the longer it's around, the higher that percentage will be, not lower.

I am so smart. S-M-R-T...

Once again, I beleive I explained that wrong. Agh! Where's Kim Stanley Robinson when I need him? He explained Art and Nadia's difference in age that way so well in less than a sentence.

[gollum9630]

are you trying to say that the date u joined entmoot had been around for a certain amount of time, because if so then ya, the percentage would decrease, but thats the only way i can figure it out.

now, what the heck does this have to do with reminiscing

[trolls' bane]

Originally Posted by gollum9630

are you trying to say that the date u joined entmoot had been around for a certain amount of time, because if so then ya, the percentage would decrease, but thats the only way i can figure it out.

now, what the heck does this have to do with reminiscing

Yeah! I think...That seems right. I certainly didn't join near the beginning, and much less when the EZboard was around. I'm in the dark there...Is the concept of Entmoot 2353 days old, or is the vB 'Moot 2353 days old?

I guess I'm trying to reminisc mathematically?

[Nurvingiel]

Entmoot is that many days old, that thread Falagar found is from the old board. (I think it was at Ezboard.)

That's before my time though.

[Jonathan]

Originally Posted by trolls' bane

Yep! That's me. Gosh! Do you realize that the longer I'm here, the more the percentage of the time I've spent here to Entmoot's age decreases?
Now I've been here about 45% of Entmoot's age, one day that will be less than 1%! Can you beleive it? Although, I think that's going to be in like 35 years, so don't hold...ah...my breath.

Your explanation isn't the best but I get what you mean


[-] = time before TB joined
[+] = time after TB joined

('99) - - - - - - | + + + + + + + ('06)

The time before TB today represents 45% of Entmoot's total age.

In about 300 years (not 35 years), the time before TB will represent only 1% of Entmoot's total age.

('99) - - - - - - | + + + + + + + + + + + + + + +..... + + (year ~2300)

[Farimir Captain of Gondor]

Originally Posted by Jonathan

Your explanation isn't the best but I get what you mean


[-] = time before TB joined
[+] = time after TB joined

('99) - - - - - - | + + + + + + + ('06)

The time before TB today represents 45% of Entmoot's total age.

In about 300 years (not 35 years), the time before TB will represent only 1% of Entmoot's total age.

('99) - - - - - - | + + + + + + + + + + + + + + +..... + + (year ~2300)

*mind turns to mush* I was never that good with math.