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[–] [email protected] 49 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (4 children)

Does the sequence go N girls, N-1 cups? Or N number of girls sharing only 2 cups?

I need to know how this scales as the number of girls and cups grow larger.

[–] Darorad 26 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I think N/2 would make the most sense

[–] Zehzin 12 points 1 year ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago

in this economy you need a cupmate to afford the rent on even the tiniest of cups

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

⌊n/2⌋ cups

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago (1 children)

this stuff is so much easier to figure out with one man one jar

[–] Donkter 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Under capitalism, every man gets a jar.

[–] FlightyPenguin 6 points 1 year ago

Under capitalism, nobody is given a jar; jars are "earned". One man owns the jar factory and most of the jars.

[–] errer 12 points 1 year ago

Always just one cup for any N girls

[–] complacent_jerboa 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

AFAIK it scales at a 2:1 ratio. n girls means n/2 cups.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] complacent_jerboa 2 points 1 year ago

Well actually this is a discrete math thing, so if we let n be the number of girls, and f(n) be the number of cups, then f(n) = n/2, but only such that n = 2k, where k is an integer.