Sounds miserable no thanks.
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I think the steps are the only challenge. Just going to the bathroom accrudes 1000 steps sometimes
Shouldn't it be 500<?
It should be <500 or what they said. What they said is mathematically better but grammatically wonky, whereas what you said is 500 is less than steps per day.
Big number > small number < big number
I did that one day. Does it count?
I've been training for this my whole life
Completed it
People don't know how to use greater-than or less-than symbols
If you read it aloud it doesn't sound right, but from a mathematical perspective it's saying the number of steps per day should be less than 500, which I think is the intention of the writer, no?
500 greater then steps per day
500 > steps_per_day
Unfortunately I don't think we have enough information to solve for steps_per_day , though I assume it is also >= 0 .
So we can make an educated guess that
500 > steps_per_day >= 0
Lmao
That’s if you interpret the text as being part of the equation
x>5 <=> 5>x 🤓
Can't tell if an Excel enthusiast or a palindrome aficionado. 🤔
Yes
Yes that's the intention but they got the order wrong, it would make more sense if it was written as ateps/day < 500
It's so wrong it underflowed into somehow being right again.
Unusual? Sure. Mathematically? Right.
People don't know how to use greater-than or less-than symbols
It’s correctly used in the text.
Number of steps < 500 is equivalent to 500 > number of steps.
such as yourself you mean?
Nope, it's wrong lol
It's a bit weird, but imo not wrong. 500 > steps/day or steps/day < 500 is the same. As long as the big end of the < or > is at the 500 it makes sense. It only doesn't make sense if you literally read 500 > steps/day as "five hundred greater than steps a day" instead of parsing it as math.
Only reason it's so jarring is the context has people parsing the whole list as language and they weren't expecting to have to abruptly parse a mathematical expression.
Was with you until no home cooked meals. Takeaways cost more than I spend on food for a week and I can make better food.
Make it buy a kg of every flavour of sausage at the butchers and eat them all over the month and the challenge works out a lot cheaper and tastier.
Yeah but you'll also be eating sausage for every meal of every day for that entire month.
And?
It's gonna fit right in with the alcohol
That's what makes it a challenge
500 greater than steps per day
aka steps per day less than 500
I don't get why people have a problem with this
Yeah so I did the math. 500 is supposed greater than your number of steps per day.
That doesn't sound very healthy physically. But mentally? Yes!
That's the trick though, especially as you get older. The stuff that sounds like an awesome relaxing reset and will surely be nice at the time, is not always the activity that will actually leave you feeling better afterwards.
A frustrating example is being tired in the middle of the day on a weekend when I wanted to be productive in my hobbies & house work. If I take a nap, will that save me evening or ruin my evening?
There's a lot of trial and error, since we're all different.
Challenge? Bro this is just life
I do believe that is the joke.
Takeout every day? Your monthly food bills gotta be over 1k
One Chipotle bowl could be two of my meals, just to be fair. That's $12 there. Add a cheeseburger or nuggets on a cheap menu and we are talking about $20 per day. 20 * 30 = $600, so still a lot.
Hmm...
- Daily porn actually gets boring. Porn will start to become "normal" and so you'll get desensitised. Why would I want to desensitise myself from porn?
- No thank you. I like the occasional cocktail, but alcohol every day!? Ew no.
- I already do this. :)
- I get 8 hours sleep minimum. Can't get less. I'll die.
- My job involves biking... That's technically not taking steps.
- I already don't do this.
- That's too bloody expensive! You think I have a tree that grows money!?
Pussy
More than, 500 steps a day!? What do you think I am--active?
While it did use the greater-than symbol, it was arranged unconventionally. The way it's written is "500 is greater than steps per day," meaning don't walk too much, which fits with the rest of the author's theme.
No. Steps/day is the unit. They used the symbol incorrectly
That’s not how that works, though… It is 100 % what they meant, but not at all how you use greater than/less than signs in text.
You do......?
Let n be the number of steps
500 > n >= 0
For example
Sure, I might have worded myself a bit clumsily. I meant using them in a conversational way. They’re trying to say “less than 500 steps,” which is very different from “500 is larger than steps per day” in tone.
My point was just that in normal speech and writing you would say “less than 500”, which would be written “< 500” if you insisted on using the mathematical sign.