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by tlholaday 1681 days ago
It's fun for life expectancy.

Step one: Ask for your own life expectancy.

Step two: Ask for the life expectancy of someone years' younger.

Step three: What.

Step four: Oh.

2 comments

Huh? This was not at all surprising, someone younger than me had a lower life expectancy, while someone older was higher
This sounds bad for the state of the world?
No, people die. A 99 year old can't have a life expectancy of 70 years.

You want life expectancy at birth, by year of birth, for proper comparison.

I wrote https://gitlab.com/kragen/bubbleos/blob/master/yeso/toki.c to display my current remaining life expectancy as a clock, counting down.