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How Many Steps Will We Take? Just for fun

#1 Platinum Joinee Wilf (GD)

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Posted 12 June 2007 - 07:54 PM

Hello!

So, how about a quick non-money-changing-hands sweepstake?

I want to know how many steps the team will take over the two days of the 24 Peaks Challenge.

Please post your guesses below, the closest will win some sort of tat prize, donated by me.

Some hints and limitations:

1) The 24 Peaks Challenge is a total distance of 51.7 kilometres miles over 2 days. The gains and losses in height are around 21,000 ft over the two days.

2) The approximate distance taken by a 6' man in one stride is about 30".

3) We will only include steps taken on the walk. Blundering around the hostel after will not be counted. The value for the team as a whole will be made by taking an average based on the steps taken by the tallest and shortest team members.

And that's it. How many steps will the team as a whole (all 5 of us added togather) take over the course of the two days?

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Posted 13 June 2007 - 11:40 AM

420,000

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Posted 13 June 2007 - 11:53 AM

550,000

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Posted 13 June 2007 - 11:56 AM

I hope that you'll actually be counting, rather than using these newfangled unreliable electronic jobbies... I expect to see tally charts covering Biddle.

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Posted 13 June 2007 - 12:16 PM

350,000

Also, I want to hear more about DWH's electronic jobbies.

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Posted 13 June 2007 - 12:17 PM

I'm not f***ing counting anything (except mountains)!!! I'm marching, eating & drinking & THAT'S IT.

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Posted 13 June 2007 - 03:11 PM

I have a lovely image of Biddle taking really big strides and shouting ONE TWO now

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Posted 13 June 2007 - 04:11 PM

I give Biddle 1,000 before he passes out (and correspondingly, about 950 before he's in a pub. Wait, 950? Maybe 500... At a push...)

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Posted 13 June 2007 - 06:32 PM

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Posted 13 June 2007 - 06:45 PM

376.

Give or take a few hundred thousand.

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Posted 13 June 2007 - 06:47 PM

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#12 GJ Michelle P

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Posted 13 June 2007 - 07:04 PM

How many steps?
Enough to get you up and down.

I'll work on a numerical guess and get back to you.

#13 Platinum Joinee Wilf (GD)

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Posted 13 June 2007 - 08:02 PM

YEAH!!

Crunch those maths! Work that number muscle! Grrrr!!!

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Posted 14 June 2007 - 10:01 AM

Wilf is like Mr Motivator with Maths :lol:

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Posted 14 June 2007 - 11:51 AM

After much calculation I figure you will take exactly....

8734637635745 steps.

I may have just typed any numbers in :unsure:

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Posted 14 June 2007 - 02:05 PM

Joinee Meek, on 14 Jun 2007, 12:51 PM, said:

After much calculation I figure you will take exactly....

8734637635745 steps.

It'd better not be. My poor legs

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Posted 14 June 2007 - 02:07 PM

What's quite funny is I can't even read that number!

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Posted 14 June 2007 - 02:12 PM

Eight billion, seven hundred and thirty four thousand million, six hundred and thirty seven million, six hundred and thirty five thousand, seven hundred and fourty five.

*sings*

Well I would walk eight billion, seven hundred and thirty four thousand million, six hundred and thirty seven million, six hundred and thirty five thousand, seven hundred and fourty five miles! And I will walk eight billion, seven hundred and thirty four thousand million, six hundred and thirty seven million, six hundred and thirty five thousand, seven hundred and fourty five more! Just to be the man who walked eight billion, seven hundred and thirty four thousand million, six hundred and thirty seven million, six hundred and thirty five thousand, seven hundred and fourty five miles to wind up at your door!

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Posted 14 June 2007 - 02:14 PM

LSJ Biddle (ga), on 14 Jun 2007, 03:12 PM, said:

Clever Biddle! I was just going to say it was a squillion and something!

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Posted 14 June 2007 - 02:15 PM

That might get you to my door, Elliot!

You can walk on water, right?

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Posted 14 June 2007 - 02:20 PM

Except I think I just did it wrong. Seeing as a billion is 1000,000,000 not 1000,000,000,000, it works on groups of 3, not by doubling.

...So it's eight trillion, seven hundred and thirty four billion, six hundred and thirty seven million, six hundred and thirty five thousand, seven hundred and fourty five.

Phew! Got back in before a maths geek rebuked me!

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Posted 14 June 2007 - 02:21 PM

38 million.

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Posted 14 June 2007 - 02:26 PM

LSJ Biddle (ga), on 14 Jun 2007, 03:20 PM, said:

My brain hurts!

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Posted 14 June 2007 - 02:46 PM

After extensive thought I've come up with the conclusion you will take x - y steps, where x is the number of steps you will take and y = 0:)

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Posted 15 June 2007 - 02:24 AM

Does that mean we have to get pedometers??More weight to carry :rolleyes:

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Posted 15 June 2007 - 09:42 AM

LSJ Biddle (ga), on 14 Jun 2007, 03:20 PM, said:

Pot. Kettle.

Lions and tigers and Jo, oh my!

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Posted 16 June 2007 - 11:46 AM

LSJ Biddle (ga), on 14 Jun 2007, 03:20 PM, said:

Except I think I just did it wrong. Seeing as a billion is 1000,000,000 not 1000,000,000,000, it works on groups of 3, not by doubling.

But Biddle! An English billion is a million million! An American (and SI) billion is a thousand million. I assumed you were just being overly British, old chap!

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Posted 18 June 2007 - 09:42 AM

SJ Wagner-Hall (dwh), on 16 Jun 2007, 12:46 PM, said:

But Biddle! An English billion is a million million! An American (and SI) billion is a thousand million. I assumed you were just being overly British, old chap!

Yes, that. That sounds like I didn't make a mistake. Good.

Still SI is the standard we're supposed to use. It's like cm's over inches & all that. Still, do like the old inches & yards, good for confusing the kids.

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