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10-25-2016, 08:32 AM
If you were to read 2 poems per day from this website in posts or threads, how long would it take to read them all assuming 1 new poem is posted daily?
I'm guessing 50 years
Peanut butter honey banana sandwiches
10-25-2016, 08:44 AM
7 1/2 years for just novice, mild, and serious...without counting posts after today
Thanks to this Forum
10-25-2016, 08:52 AM
(10-25-2016, 08:32 AM)CRNDLSM Wrote: If you were to read 2 poems per day from this website in posts or threads, how long would it take to read them all assuming 1 new poem is posted daily? # of threads in each poetry forum (not counting practice, spotlight, arse, etc): Milo: 148 Novice: 1,695 Mild: 1,945 Serious: 1,879 Miscellaneous: 1,306 Fun: 1,278 Short: 716 Audio: 61 Sonnets for Dale: 24 Total = 9,052 Total Divided by 2 poems read per day = the # of days it would take to read existing poems 9,052 / 2 = 4,526 days to read existing poems In this time, an extra 4,526 poems would be made. These poems would be reduced at a rate of: 2 poems read per day - 1 poems posted per day = 1 poem per day. Therefore, it would take an extra 4,526 days to read the poems that have yet to be posted as of today. # of days to read existing poems + # of days to read not yet posted poems = total time it would take to read all poems 4,526 days + 4,526 days = 9,052 days 9,052 days divided by 365 days = # of years 9,052 days / 365 days = 24.8 years Therefore, it would take 24.8 years to read all the poems (or threads) on the site. I may have made a mistake, though. EDIT: I left out members only poetry, selected poets, and selected poetry as well - you could add those if you wanted.
And posts to threads that are also poems like Milo's forum
I wonder if anyone's come close if they've been reading from the beginning
Peanut butter honey banana sandwiches
10-25-2016, 01:20 PM
4 hours if you skip the ones written by dale or tom
10-25-2016, 01:35 PM
I don't understand math. And that's my gimmick. I stand up and make dopey faces, like James Dean and Marlon Brando, and girls who aren't good at math think I'm Saint Exupery of the Little Prince. But girls who have been good at math always reject me in the end. I forgot the question; that's my problem. You can't be good at math and, forget the question,. My solution is I'm always trying to overcome the numbers in some logical way. I have to stand at the counter and have to keep recounting the money: but after a few years I just said: fuck it: Mammon. And then I was just put on disability and I never had to count money again. If I messed up I just had to lose a girlfriend or two. No big deal in the run of things.
10-25-2016, 01:49 PM
Wjames had some good math there, but he explained with many words and a funny process. Take his starting number (9052) and subtract 2*number_of_days_passed (- 2x) and then add 1 poem_per_day (+1x).
9052 - 2x + x = 9052 - x. Set to zero. 9052-x = 0 Therefore x= 9052 days. Yay basic algebra. And good work Wjames, no mistake there. At 2 poems per day and 1 more poem each day, it's the number of poems when you started. But I think we add more than poem per day here.
If you're the smartest person in the room, you're in the wrong room.
"Or, if a poet writes a poem, then immediately commits suicide (as any decent poet should)..." -- Erthona 
10-25-2016, 02:18 PM
I don't understand math. Sometimes I'll be in line at the grocery store with something that's less than a dollar, and I'll count and recount my change until I get to the register, and then hand over the wrong amount. I used to get embarrassed about it. But then I learned the art of jive. Jive. And being alone, in jive, which is deeper than nonsense. Because there's always a level of common sense to it that the average person at the cash register isn't interested in you enough to continue the conversation about. And that's not easy, when you just want to go around making sense everywhere, but you get used to it. Because, it works.
I used to pull this stunt where I'd, let me tell you about math; I'd rip a twenty dollar bill in half, and I'd go up to the youngest, most inexperienced looking person at say Walmart or the mall and tell them I just got it that way. And it was easy as ripping a twenty in two and I could buy forty dollars worth of stuff in the same store using one twenty and some change at two different registers. Things have gotten more uptight lately. I buy a belt at Kmart and the girl holds my ten up to the overhead light to make sure it's not counterfeit. 
10-25-2016, 02:44 PM
I thought Wjames's computus was a poem until I read it, at which point thought become knowledge. So, answering Leanne's question, no, nothing wrong with it.
10-25-2016, 03:14 PM
-- Sometimes the inexperienced were too nervous and it had to be the just experienced enough. To trust. To make a good bet. That's what helps a man out.
10-25-2016, 06:52 PM
Getting the rate of poem-posting down to one per day would require poets to actually take the
time to observe, reflect, edit, and do all sorts of other busy-busy writer-stuff. A theoretically impossible hypothesis. Next up: How many wheels does your grandmother need to be a trolley?
a brightly colored fungus that grows in bark inclusions
10-25-2016, 09:05 PM
I've been up all night rereading the opening post. For a little while I thought that it might be three. But when I went down and saw the line that said 50 I got thrown off again. So I came back to my solution that jive is good rhythm without knowing how to count, it always works. Try and see.
The answer to Ray's question is six. 
10-25-2016, 09:34 PM
Rowens, math is bad magic.
 You shouldn't let it's evil keep you awake. I have a math allergy that makes numbers sound like static.  . People like us should keep a safe distance from numbers related computing type situations.  But crundle, why are you only reading two poems a day? If you are really so determined to read all of them, I reccomend a much higher rate of consumption. How many poems per day can a person read without going a bit mad?
The Soufflé isn’t the soufflé; the soufflé is the recipe. --Clara
10-25-2016, 10:12 PM
It's like what Meat Loaf sang, Nothing really rocks and nothing really rolls and nothing's ever worth the cost. Or Neil Young: Red means run, son. Numbers add up to nothing.
10-26-2016, 12:23 AM
(10-25-2016, 09:34 PM)Quixilated Wrote: Rowens, math is bad magic. (10-25-2016, 10:12 PM)rowens Wrote: It's like what Meat Loaf sang, Nothing really rocks and nothing really rolls and nothing's ever worth the cost. Or Neil Young: Red means run, son. Numbers add up to nothing. People who proclaim they are bad at "math" are like Christians who say they don't believe in "evolution": Neither one has any idea what they are referring to and hence no clue as to their actual capabilities. In reality they are bragging, taking glee in demeaning an activity that requires thinking, and claiming inability just to get out of doing something they think might require effort. (Not that I don't employ this age-old technique -- just not in this area.) Median number of wheels = 8. It all depends on the type of poem, the initial mental state of the reader, and what all of us ate for breakfast (gestalt kind of thing?). Don't mistake crumble for his/her/its hypothetically absurd protagonist; in actuality her/his/its read-rate approaches 12 (from the underside?).
a brightly colored fungus that grows in bark inclusions
10-26-2016, 12:28 AM
Evolution? You mean when the apes revolted and threw the humans off the ark? That old jazz.
10-26-2016, 12:40 AM
(10-26-2016, 12:23 AM)rayheinrich Wrote: Don't mistake crumble for his/her/its hypothetically absurd protagonist; in actuality her/his/its read-rate approaches 12My phrasing was poor there. I didn't mean to imply that anyone was actually only reading two poems per day. I addressed the question to CRNDLSM because I was talking about the original post, but the "you" I meant was the hypothetical "you" of the person in the question. I meant, why did the question limit it to two, why not five or ten? That if a hypothetical person decides to undertake to read all the poems on the site, why would they only read two per day? They could shorten the number of years this task would require if they hypothetically read more poems each day. That's all. I'm sorry, you're right, the way I phrased it wasn't clear. No personal commentary was intended. Sorry CRN for any confusion. 
The Soufflé isn’t the soufflé; the soufflé is the recipe. --Clara
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