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alvaromontoro / bezos-calculator

Small app that shows how much Jeff Bezos gained since the user started reading the page.
https://bezoscalculator.com/
MIT License
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Double check if per-second rate is accurate. #4

Closed mgulimonov closed 3 years ago

mgulimonov commented 3 years ago

Sorry for nitpicking, but I don't see how $56B is translated to 311M/per day.

56B / 365 days ~ 153M 56B / 261 working days ~ 214M

Am I missing something?

alvaromontoro commented 3 years ago

The explanation is in the BuzzFeed article. The numbers are not for the whole 2020, but only for half a year (between January 1st and July 1st, or 182 days).

56.7B in 6 months. ~ 9.45B per month ~ 311M per day ~ 12M per hour ~ 216,000 per minute ~ 3,605 per second

Their explanation is a bit fuzzy, but the numbers end up matching up if we take into account the 182 days instead of the 6 months:

56.7B in 182 days ~ 311.53M per day (56.7 / 182) ~ 12.98M per hour (311.53 / 24) ~ 216,346.61 per minute (12.98 / 60) ~ 3,605.76 per second (216,346 / 60)

alvaromontoro commented 3 years ago

I will update the README to indicate that the amount is only for the first six months of 2020.