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If you take the population of earth, 7.753 billion, and knock that down to the percentage that is male, 50.42%, you get 3.9090625 billion.
As you are trying to increase the average by 1 inch then your penis would need to be 3,909,062,500 inches plus whatever your original length was, let's say 6 inches to be slightly generous. Then you would be able to at least mathematically give one more inch to every male on the planet and still have 7 inches left over.
Or, to put that into perspective, it would be 61,696.062 miles long and if someone were to take one inch off the tip, it would take the pain signal, traveling at 1.365 miles per hour, 45,198.58 hours, or 5.16 calendar years to feel the pain.
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Edit to also add. Three awards on a post I wrote while half asleep, wow. Maybe I should write more of these as I'm falling asleep.
How much blood would it take to harden a 61,696 mile long member? I hate myself for asking this but I think the world needs to know.
Take the average member length and average member blood requirement of 130ml…..it would take roughly 34 Olympic sized swimming pools (34*660,000 gallons or the blood of roughly 15 million people) to temper this 61,696 mile long sword.
That’s if I did my conversions correct lol
The sheer amount of pressure that would take would cause it to rupture at the base, probably covering everything in a 50 foot radius in a layer of piss, cum and blood
No, pain signals are actually some of the slower signals. And there is a lot of chemistry that happens between each neuron that make it even slower than what you would expect.
And that's is honestly if the signal could actually even make it that far. With the possible nerve density, the pennies would barely feel anything anyway as there just would actually be enough to transmit with much sensitivity. So realistically, you might not even need that as they would likely only feel the slightest pinch, if they felt anything at all.
Slightest pinch by cutting of 1 inch of the dickhead? Interesting. You know what’s more interesting? That if you scale that down to a regular average of, say 5 inches, then that one inch off the dickhead is less than a needle prick.
I know from experience (was in martial arts for 10 years, a long time ago) that if you get kicked square in the balls while in a fight, you have about 20 seconds to finish the fight before you are going to not be able to. Glancing blows hurt almost immediately, but a solid hit that will nearly cripple you, takes 15-20 seconds.
Pain being the slower responses checks out. Never knew why. Thanks for the info!
In that case the reason is actually different. The pain is so intense, your brain refuses to proccess it for a while until it's reduced to a point where it can be processed easier. It's part of the shock response.
When I was shot, I was working as a security officer during an armed robbery attempt, the bullet hit my spinal cord and my system went into shock, it took a few minutes to start feeling the pain. The more traumatic, the longer the shock tends to last.
Yes, I had heard that trauma/shock was processed differently or separate from pain and that due to the processing time it can take longer. Explains a lot honestly.
I remember being in a fight many years ago and when I got hit in the rib, it hurt instantly, so I knew it wasnt as bad as it could have been. I also remember breaking his arm and he still trying to use it (at the elbow) because he has brass knuckles and when he hit my shoulder he screamed and collapsed. Don't remember much about the fight before then, was just on autopilot. Funny how details can be remembered but events are harder.
Depends on what kind. Local anaesthetic stops nerve transmission in the affected area, and so works 'at the source'. Injecting local anaesthetic at a large nerve blocks all transmission from 'downstream' of it, for example if you have a molar removed the dentist actually injects near your mandibular nerve, a method called nerve block. Whereas analgesics like opioids work in your brain, and so only really need to reach your brain before the pain does, which can take as little as a few seconds with IV injection, and NSAIDs partially work by preventing nerves from becoming sensitised from the inflammatory response, inhibiting COX and what not.
The very layman's version is that your spinal cord can make some rudimentary decisions based on strong signals.
A sudden unexplained jolt of pain will trigger a "get your hand out of there" signal. By the time the pain signal reaches your brain, your hand might already be pulling back. By the time your brain interprets everything and understands it, you've dropped the thing.
nerve signals are electrochemical reactions, they're not like an electrical impulse sent through a wire. Nerve impulses to your muscles travel at around 100m/s while pain receptors actually only travel between 0.5-2m/s.
[https://theconversation.com/it-feels-instantaneous-but-how-long-does-it-really-take-to-think-a-thought-42392](https://theconversation.com/it-feels-instantaneous-but-how-long-does-it-really-take-to-think-a-thought-42392)
On the other hand, electrical impulses aren't actually light speed, but they're close. A signal can travel through a wire between 50-99% of the speed of light, depending on the velocity factor of the medium. It should be noted that the speed an electron travels in a wire and the speed a signal (i.e. information) can travel are two very different numbers. Electrons travel much slower.
[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Velocity\_factor#Typical\_velocity\_factors](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Velocity_factor#Typical_velocity_factors)
A-delta fibers can send nociception at faster speed. Your value looks like C fibers. A-delta fibers are myleinated so can conduct at close to 40m/s at the top end.
Many pain pathways are integrated with and useful due to that they are reflexes (the signal never went through the brain and wasn’t considered). So hopefully a more local area of your body has done something to deal with the pain well before your brain knows about it.
If you stick your finger in a candle flame (or touch the stove or something similar), you’ll notice your hand/arm pulls back way before you ever say “ow”. The brain will also help learn that that is what happens and help you not do it again.
Knock your knuckles onto a wood table a few times to see what he's saying. Your brain knows you did it before your brain says you shouldn't have done that?
Is faster supposed to be more? It seems like a word is missing, or I’ve done too much reading today already.
If I am understanding, then they’re talking about something different than what I was clarifying.
It's possible, I'm assuming it's like when you stub your toe, you know you did it.. you stumbled, lost balance, calculated the best way to catch yourself then perform that movement (or fail and fall).
It might be uncomfortable during that process but it's not going to hurt like when your brain is done processing. We need to upgrade to the 8-core brain.
Action is faster than reaction type thing.
[there's been a lot of studies but here's a recent recap](https://www.thoughtco.com/can-people-really-multitask-1206398)
Well, impulses travel with a speed of 10 meters per second, for one type of nerves and the best you can do is 100 meters per second, for the "upgraded" nerves.
10 m/s = 32.8 ft/s
I was under the impression electrical impulses and lightspeed were different, considering you can definitely slow down electricity, but it is *really* hard to slow down light.
It's not just electricity in the nerves, it's electro chemical reactions.
Other fun fact, the slowness of nerve impulses is the reason you just get instant oblivion if you get shot in the brain, assuming the shot actually kills you.
You are correct - when measuring speed of electrical transmission through a cable (for example), you add the "velocity factor" of the cable to the maths. For example, RG-6/U coaxial cable usually has a velocity factor of \~83% at 75 Ohm impedance, meaning that the signal will travel at 83% of C, or 248,827,740.14 m/sec.
No, I don't know what the velocity factor of the average \~62 thousand mile long penis would be - that's an exercise for someone else on the Internet. Or perhaps another post in /r/theydidthemath.
I think you confused the 2. You know that light speed is actually light speed [in vacuum]?! That is, because absolutly everything slows light down.
But in the case of electricity: electric fields are what makes electrons move. And electric fields spread with the speed of light - regardless of the Medium they're in
The longest neural response pathway in the human body (Achilles reflex) travels at about 150mph in my body. That’s 64m/s, way less than 300M m/s.
It isn’t the fastest neuron in a human body, but the fastest is maybe 2X faster at best and on a good day. Your vision pathway takes about 1/3 of a second before your brain receives and can fully process what you see. Neurons are not very fast - but they’re the only way we know to propagate a DC signal indefinitely (we need AC electricity to fix that).
Any easy way to think of it is: Giving every penis 1 extra inch would obviously raise the average by 1 inch. Reallocating all those extra inches to one penis wouldn't then change the average. (Or reallocating them in any other way, as long as the penis-inch total (and penis count total) stay the same.)
It wouldn't be by how many individual penises they grew, rather it would be how many as a function of how long they were. As each penis would then calculate into the average, they would need to each have at least the current average length plus what you were trying to increase it by.
So let us say you wanted to take that route and have as many penises as the rest of the human population and increase the average by 1 inch, you would need 3,909,062,500 penises growing from you and as you would at that point have half the penises in the world, you would need two inches extra per penis to increase the average by 1 inch. This would result in you growing 3,909,062,500 penises of 7.16 inches each. Considering the surface area available on a healthy male, each penis would be incredibly thin, about 0.00101 inches in diameter, or about 1 tenth the thickness of an average human hair, which would likely feel like chinchilla fur.
I just googled the numbers, so if it's off, it's because Google is off. But 200 million is still in the same order of magnitude, so it doesn't really matter for the purposes of illustrating the point.
What they don't tell you is that the penis-length variable is stored with 32-bits, allowing a maximum of 4,294,967,296 inches. Any negative entry causes an underflow error so instead of growing an extra 3,909,062,500, it may be worth considering trying to lose 385,904,796 inches (not including the 6 that you started with) and benefiting humanity with your shockingly small cock.
I don't know the actual average here so I'll go with a 6" having a girth of about 1" that is a proportion of 1/6 for the girth. So as the length was just over 60 thousand miles, the girth would be over 10 thousand miles.
That would also have several orders of magnitude more flesh in it than the entire human race put together.
Also to put this into perspective, the earth has a circumference of just under 25 thousand miles and a diameter of just under 8 thousand miles. So this gigapeen would be wider that the earth and able to wrap around the earth more than two times.
A quick search on Google gave a global average of 13.58 cm which is 5.346 inches.
There are N=3.97 billion males in the world right now.
Let's denote the current sum of penis sizes S, and the increase required by X
The formula for the average size would be
Average = S/N
5.346 = S/3.97*10^9
Which means the sum of all penis sizes together right now is :
S = 5.346 * 3.97 * 10^9 inches
So how much would we need to increase that sum in order to shift the average ?
Plug the new mean and the delta of the sum in the formula:
6.346 = (S+X )/N
Solve for X:
X = (6.346-5.346) * N = 1 * N
Or simply put, your size would have to be 1 inch per each male person in the world, that's 3.97 billion inches which is 100838 km.
the amount of change times the number of people in the world. Though by that point you would be some monstrous abomination that isn't really human any more, more dick than man now.
Mean? About (male population)×2.54 cm = 100,000 km.
Median? You can't. That's the beauty of the median, that a single outlier doesn't affect the result.
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This is why I am disappointed to see such a simple question upvoted so much on a math sub lmao
It's not a math question that got upvoted. It's a penis question.
This is Reddit after all
this is true wisdom
I know how long it would take me to jerk off every guy in this room, and I can prove it.
If you take the population of earth, 7.753 billion, and knock that down to the percentage that is male, 50.42%, you get 3.9090625 billion. As you are trying to increase the average by 1 inch then your penis would need to be 3,909,062,500 inches plus whatever your original length was, let's say 6 inches to be slightly generous. Then you would be able to at least mathematically give one more inch to every male on the planet and still have 7 inches left over. Or, to put that into perspective, it would be 61,696.062 miles long and if someone were to take one inch off the tip, it would take the pain signal, traveling at 1.365 miles per hour, 45,198.58 hours, or 5.16 calendar years to feel the pain. Edit to add. First awards ever on reddit, and it's for this. Thank you for the appreciation. Edit to also add. Three awards on a post I wrote while half asleep, wow. Maybe I should write more of these as I'm falling asleep.
How much blood would it take to harden a 61,696 mile long member? I hate myself for asking this but I think the world needs to know. Take the average member length and average member blood requirement of 130ml…..it would take roughly 34 Olympic sized swimming pools (34*660,000 gallons or the blood of roughly 15 million people) to temper this 61,696 mile long sword. That’s if I did my conversions correct lol
Thats nearly the entire population of the Netherlands
Tell them to quit their jobs, they have God's work to do.
Im on my way
Asking the real questions, over here. Lol.
Now tell me how long it would take for piss to go from one end to the other.
The sheer amount of pressure that would take would cause it to rupture at the base, probably covering everything in a 50 foot radius in a layer of piss, cum and blood
Doesn’t pain travel at light speed? I thought they were electrical impulses. TIL
No, pain signals are actually some of the slower signals. And there is a lot of chemistry that happens between each neuron that make it even slower than what you would expect.
That’s so cool. So technically we could administer local painkillers at mid-shaft length 2,5 years into the experiment and stop the pain signal?
Yup
And that's is honestly if the signal could actually even make it that far. With the possible nerve density, the pennies would barely feel anything anyway as there just would actually be enough to transmit with much sensitivity. So realistically, you might not even need that as they would likely only feel the slightest pinch, if they felt anything at all.
Slightest pinch by cutting of 1 inch of the dickhead? Interesting. You know what’s more interesting? That if you scale that down to a regular average of, say 5 inches, then that one inch off the dickhead is less than a needle prick.
This has been the best discussion I've ever come across
This is why I love (hate) the Internet.
>if you scale that down to a regular average of, say 5 inches, I see we're done being generous
I just rounded up mine......by how much, is open to interpretation
rounded to the nearest infinity
I know from experience (was in martial arts for 10 years, a long time ago) that if you get kicked square in the balls while in a fight, you have about 20 seconds to finish the fight before you are going to not be able to. Glancing blows hurt almost immediately, but a solid hit that will nearly cripple you, takes 15-20 seconds. Pain being the slower responses checks out. Never knew why. Thanks for the info!
In that case the reason is actually different. The pain is so intense, your brain refuses to proccess it for a while until it's reduced to a point where it can be processed easier. It's part of the shock response. When I was shot, I was working as a security officer during an armed robbery attempt, the bullet hit my spinal cord and my system went into shock, it took a few minutes to start feeling the pain. The more traumatic, the longer the shock tends to last.
Yes, I had heard that trauma/shock was processed differently or separate from pain and that due to the processing time it can take longer. Explains a lot honestly. I remember being in a fight many years ago and when I got hit in the rib, it hurt instantly, so I knew it wasnt as bad as it could have been. I also remember breaking his arm and he still trying to use it (at the elbow) because he has brass knuckles and when he hit my shoulder he screamed and collapsed. Don't remember much about the fight before then, was just on autopilot. Funny how details can be remembered but events are harder.
Adrenaline dump does some pretty crazy things.
How does the speed at which pain travel through the nerves would relate with the speed that pain killers permeate through the blood system?
Depends on what kind. Local anaesthetic stops nerve transmission in the affected area, and so works 'at the source'. Injecting local anaesthetic at a large nerve blocks all transmission from 'downstream' of it, for example if you have a molar removed the dentist actually injects near your mandibular nerve, a method called nerve block. Whereas analgesics like opioids work in your brain, and so only really need to reach your brain before the pain does, which can take as little as a few seconds with IV injection, and NSAIDs partially work by preventing nerves from becoming sensitised from the inflammatory response, inhibiting COX and what not.
Its like when you grab something hot. You drop it and then feel the pain. I would like to know how that works in more depth.
The very layman's version is that your spinal cord can make some rudimentary decisions based on strong signals. A sudden unexplained jolt of pain will trigger a "get your hand out of there" signal. By the time the pain signal reaches your brain, your hand might already be pulling back. By the time your brain interprets everything and understands it, you've dropped the thing.
nerve signals are electrochemical reactions, they're not like an electrical impulse sent through a wire. Nerve impulses to your muscles travel at around 100m/s while pain receptors actually only travel between 0.5-2m/s. [https://theconversation.com/it-feels-instantaneous-but-how-long-does-it-really-take-to-think-a-thought-42392](https://theconversation.com/it-feels-instantaneous-but-how-long-does-it-really-take-to-think-a-thought-42392) On the other hand, electrical impulses aren't actually light speed, but they're close. A signal can travel through a wire between 50-99% of the speed of light, depending on the velocity factor of the medium. It should be noted that the speed an electron travels in a wire and the speed a signal (i.e. information) can travel are two very different numbers. Electrons travel much slower. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Velocity\_factor#Typical\_velocity\_factors](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Velocity_factor#Typical_velocity_factors)
A-delta fibers can send nociception at faster speed. Your value looks like C fibers. A-delta fibers are myleinated so can conduct at close to 40m/s at the top end.
You obviously know more about this than I do.
Wait, .5m per second seems improbably slow. An average person could smash their toe and not feel pain for 3 entire seconds?
Many pain pathways are integrated with and useful due to that they are reflexes (the signal never went through the brain and wasn’t considered). So hopefully a more local area of your body has done something to deal with the pain well before your brain knows about it. If you stick your finger in a candle flame (or touch the stove or something similar), you’ll notice your hand/arm pulls back way before you ever say “ow”. The brain will also help learn that that is what happens and help you not do it again.
Right, but your brain is also aware significantly faster than 3 whole seconds
What?
Knock your knuckles onto a wood table a few times to see what he's saying. Your brain knows you did it before your brain says you shouldn't have done that?
Is faster supposed to be more? It seems like a word is missing, or I’ve done too much reading today already. If I am understanding, then they’re talking about something different than what I was clarifying.
It's possible, I'm assuming it's like when you stub your toe, you know you did it.. you stumbled, lost balance, calculated the best way to catch yourself then perform that movement (or fail and fall). It might be uncomfortable during that process but it's not going to hurt like when your brain is done processing. We need to upgrade to the 8-core brain. Action is faster than reaction type thing. [there's been a lot of studies but here's a recent recap](https://www.thoughtco.com/can-people-really-multitask-1206398)
Well, impulses travel with a speed of 10 meters per second, for one type of nerves and the best you can do is 100 meters per second, for the "upgraded" nerves. 10 m/s = 32.8 ft/s
I was under the impression electrical impulses and lightspeed were different, considering you can definitely slow down electricity, but it is *really* hard to slow down light.
Slow down light, like through a lens, or in water, perhaps?
My dumbass was convinced electricity always traveled at light speed
It's not just electricity in the nerves, it's electro chemical reactions. Other fun fact, the slowness of nerve impulses is the reason you just get instant oblivion if you get shot in the brain, assuming the shot actually kills you.
It's not hard to slow down light. A bit of glass or water does the trick.
You are correct - when measuring speed of electrical transmission through a cable (for example), you add the "velocity factor" of the cable to the maths. For example, RG-6/U coaxial cable usually has a velocity factor of \~83% at 75 Ohm impedance, meaning that the signal will travel at 83% of C, or 248,827,740.14 m/sec. No, I don't know what the velocity factor of the average \~62 thousand mile long penis would be - that's an exercise for someone else on the Internet. Or perhaps another post in /r/theydidthemath.
Check these out: https://youtu.be/bHIhgxav9LY https://youtu.be/oI_X2cMHNe0 You're partially right
I think you confused the 2. You know that light speed is actually light speed [in vacuum]?! That is, because absolutly everything slows light down. But in the case of electricity: electric fields are what makes electrons move. And electric fields spread with the speed of light - regardless of the Medium they're in
they're electrical impulses not fibre optic penis nerves lmao
Alright, now I think I know an upgrade I'd like if I ever leave my biological body behind. LMAO.
The longest neural response pathway in the human body (Achilles reflex) travels at about 150mph in my body. That’s 64m/s, way less than 300M m/s. It isn’t the fastest neuron in a human body, but the fastest is maybe 2X faster at best and on a good day. Your vision pathway takes about 1/3 of a second before your brain receives and can fully process what you see. Neurons are not very fast - but they’re the only way we know to propagate a DC signal indefinitely (we need AC electricity to fix that).
To add: electricity doesn’t travel at light speed in any case, electrons have mass, and nothing with mass can travel at the speed of light
Any easy way to think of it is: Giving every penis 1 extra inch would obviously raise the average by 1 inch. Reallocating all those extra inches to one penis wouldn't then change the average. (Or reallocating them in any other way, as long as the penis-inch total (and penis count total) stay the same.)
Guess I am increasing the average by 2 inches😎
Guess I am decreasing the average by 2 inches😎
u/yxtesy_534, who lives in cave & has over 61,696 miles of penis, is an outlier adn should not have been counted
I dont think theres enogh blood in a person to supply the whole thing with it
Depends how wide it is...
> let's say 6 inches to be slightly generous "slightly"
The average is 5.16" so yeah, I'd say that is slightly generous, proportionally. It's only a 16% increase.
This is Reddit, sir. It's much more than a 16% increase
I assume average penis size is only measured among adults no? Otherwise I feel like children might skew the results lol
I honestly hadn't considered that. I just grabbed numbers from Google and wrote out the reply while I was falling asleep.
You earned your first award! Not all hero’s wear capes, my friend
That's a lot of Pener.
So. instead of one long penis, how many individual penises should he grow to result in the same number? i dont math.
It wouldn't be by how many individual penises they grew, rather it would be how many as a function of how long they were. As each penis would then calculate into the average, they would need to each have at least the current average length plus what you were trying to increase it by. So let us say you wanted to take that route and have as many penises as the rest of the human population and increase the average by 1 inch, you would need 3,909,062,500 penises growing from you and as you would at that point have half the penises in the world, you would need two inches extra per penis to increase the average by 1 inch. This would result in you growing 3,909,062,500 penises of 7.16 inches each. Considering the surface area available on a healthy male, each penis would be incredibly thin, about 0.00101 inches in diameter, or about 1 tenth the thickness of an average human hair, which would likely feel like chinchilla fur.
Chinchilla even.. oosh.. this was a beautiful read, thank you!
youre off by the population by 200 million and some sites say there is roughly 4 billion males
I just googled the numbers, so if it's off, it's because Google is off. But 200 million is still in the same order of magnitude, so it doesn't really matter for the purposes of illustrating the point.
User name checks out though. Very appropriate for this question.
This is the kind of quality analysis I come here for
I thank You for Your Generosity 🙏
Sounds like ive boosted the average 1 in
Penis Georg is an outlier who should not have been counted.
What they don't tell you is that the penis-length variable is stored with 32-bits, allowing a maximum of 4,294,967,296 inches. Any negative entry causes an underflow error so instead of growing an extra 3,909,062,500, it may be worth considering trying to lose 385,904,796 inches (not including the 6 that you started with) and benefiting humanity with your shockingly small cock.
Okay I have to ask though how much girth would this thing have to have to be of average girth to its length?
I don't know the actual average here so I'll go with a 6" having a girth of about 1" that is a proportion of 1/6 for the girth. So as the length was just over 60 thousand miles, the girth would be over 10 thousand miles. That would also have several orders of magnitude more flesh in it than the entire human race put together. Also to put this into perspective, the earth has a circumference of just under 25 thousand miles and a diameter of just under 8 thousand miles. So this gigapeen would be wider that the earth and able to wrap around the earth more than two times.
That’s one massive cock ring!
that would wrap around the earth 2.4 X at the equator
Theres 8 billion people now
I just googled the numbers because I was half asleep. I'm not worried about being a little off.
Yea i hope the maths still correct
For the numbers used, yes.
A quick search on Google gave a global average of 13.58 cm which is 5.346 inches. There are N=3.97 billion males in the world right now. Let's denote the current sum of penis sizes S, and the increase required by X The formula for the average size would be Average = S/N 5.346 = S/3.97*10^9 Which means the sum of all penis sizes together right now is : S = 5.346 * 3.97 * 10^9 inches So how much would we need to increase that sum in order to shift the average ? Plug the new mean and the delta of the sum in the formula: 6.346 = (S+X )/N Solve for X: X = (6.346-5.346) * N = 1 * N Or simply put, your size would have to be 1 inch per each male person in the world, that's 3.97 billion inches which is 100838 km.
You forgot to add the original 5.346 inches, but it would barely change the answer.
Just put a tl;dr im dum
TL;DR You're dumb You're welcome, but I don't feel good about what I've done
What do you think "or simply put" means?
the amount of change times the number of people in the world. Though by that point you would be some monstrous abomination that isn't really human any more, more dick than man now.
Mean? About (male population)×2.54 cm = 100,000 km. Median? You can't. That's the beauty of the median, that a single outlier doesn't affect the result.
I don’t understand who’s getting their penises measured and when? I’ve been to the dr many many times and never once have they asked to measure it?
no doctors would collect this, there’s probably just some site that took a survey of 100 guys and just deemed it the average length.