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Geek Culture / How many DB'ers are out there?

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Mussi
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Posted: 16th May 2004 01:21
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I'm very curious about how many people use DB or DBP, can someone make an estimation or something? and how many forum users are there?

I'm wondering if I should do video tutorials as it is easier than writing them I believe... will cost a lot more bandwith tho



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Jimmy
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Posted: 16th May 2004 01:41
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eleventy billion

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Mussi
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Posted: 16th May 2004 01:46
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, that should explain why there are so many senseless posts



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Posted: 16th May 2004 02:03
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4 and a half (you have to allow for when ppl sleep, work, go to school, socialise etc and for my extreme lack of being able to count to eleventy billion)


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Dazzag
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I have no problem counting to eleventy billion. Unfortuantly I will be doing nothing else for the next 27 years while I accomplish this task.

Heh, reminds me of a program I saw the other day, where this bloke said to someone that he reckoned he could surf every day for 30 years. And thats what he did, even though it impacted massively on his life. Hmmmmm....

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Ian T
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Forum users has very little to do with it actually. There's no real way to estimate what quantity of Darkbasic users often use the Internet, or the forums, or how many are idlers, and since the forum is open to the public a great deal of people here either haven't bought DB/DBP or just don't use it much.

The most effective way might to be to compare DarkBASIC sales to DarkBASIC Pro pre-orders, before the big advertizing started-- that way you've got an estimation of how many users stick around in the community-- and then compare it with the expotentialy growing DBP sales as a percentile... might be something close to accurate.

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Neofish
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Posted: 16th May 2004 02:27
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so my estimate of 4.5 was rite then maby more of 4.7


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Quote: "eleventy billion"

You either mean eleven billion or seventy billion...


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Dazzag
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Be sure now.... this could mean I won't be enjoying the thirties when they come along... or not and counting instead...

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Pincho Paxton
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Well the calculation goes like this......

People have 2.4 children.....
when reaching average age 13.. 1 in 100 boys want to make games.
There are currently 5 major languages to try....

so

population of world / parents / male / average age of death / 13 / major languages.........

= 4196.4

cmc 101 is probably the .4

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Posted: 16th May 2004 04:52
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Yeah, whatever.


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Posted: 16th May 2004 05:34 Edited at: 16th May 2004 05:35
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Quote: "I have no problem counting to eleventy billion. Unfortuantly I will be doing nothing else for the next 27 years while I accomplish this task."


According to my calculations it'd take quite a bit longer than 27 years to count to 11,000,000,000...
I estimated that it'd take about 4 seconds to count to 10(I counted at a moderatly slow speed), so about .06 minutes to count to 10. So how long would it take to count to 11 Billion? (I'm not sure if I did my math right, I'm no math wizz)
Task Accomplished In:
3960000000 Seconds
or
66000000 Minutes
or
1100000 Hours
or
45833 Days
or
125 Years



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Posted: 16th May 2004 06:13
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It takes longer to count through 10 numbers if they're larger numbers though. For example:

One
Two
Three

Wouldn't take the same time as:

Three Million, Five Hundred and Eighty Seven Thousand, Two Hundred and One
Three Million, Five Hundred and Eighty Seven Thousand, Two Hundred and Two
Three Million, Five Hundred and Eighty Seven Thousand, Two Hundred and Three


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unless you just keep saying "Next number, Next Number..."


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Posted: 16th May 2004 06:39
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Lol, you got me there, well, assuming you did what CattleRustler said... it'd take you that long

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Posted: 16th May 2004 06:43 Edited at: 16th May 2004 06:44
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I am just busting Exeat's chops - we are plugin coding fools, as it were.

have you all tried our plugin by clicking the logo below?

no?

C'MON DAMMIT!




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Mussi
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Posted: 16th May 2004 15:33
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lmao



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Posted: 16th May 2004 17:04
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I can count like really really fast. And I don't sleep either.

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Posted: 16th May 2004 18:27
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@Dazzag

Quote: "I am 99% probably lying in bed right now... so don't blame me for crappy typing "


So what are you doing in bed? Still counting yourself to sleep?


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Lord Ozzum
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no, he's doing some girl

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Posted: 16th May 2004 18:30 Edited at: 16th May 2004 18:31
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Well, it would take about 125 years to count to 11 Billion, nonstop, no sleep, counting at a steady moderate speed, and taking into account that you just say Next Number

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Posted: 16th May 2004 18:32 Edited at: 16th May 2004 18:32
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yeah, that girl is Handi-and-her-five-sisters
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j/k


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lol!!

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Damn... knew that sig would come back to haunt me... and yes, I was in bed at the time. Wonders of wireless laptops.... Not now though, tis too nice a day.

Oh, and this is an automated forum bot. Because obviously I am really still counting....

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so mr automated forum bot, this girl (with the laptop *frown*) that u were in bed with, was she there by her consent????


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of course she's not
who would screw a skull?

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