| > ...administratium causes one reaction to take over four days to complete when it would have normally occurred in less than a second. Let x = administartium slowdown effect = 4 days / 1 second x = 4 days * 24 hours / day x = 96 hours * 60 minutes / hour x = 5760 minutes * 60 seconds / minute x = 345600 seconds Wrote this out to also convince myself, I am 35, did physics for 3 years in undergrad, and am apparently still bamboozled by orders of magnitude regularly. Completely unintuitive! In fact, lemme do it in reverse, I'm shocked. Given x = slowdown factor = 100B = 100_000_000_000 x = 100_000_000_000 seconds / (60 seconds / minute) x = 1_666_666_666 / (60 minutes / hour) x = 27_777_777 hours / 24 hours / day x = 1_157_407 days / 365 days / year x = 3,170 years! |