• thawed_caveman@lemmy.worldEnglish
    6·
    13 days ago

    The first part of the equation seems to make sense, the number of eggs does depend on the number of children, age of the children, and size of the eggs. Makes sense that each of the kids gets two eggs. Not sure why it’s the square root of y, but okay.

    The (a+d) part i just don’t understand at all. Why are the physical properties of the garden relevant?

    And yeah, as the other commenter pointed out, i wonder what units they’re even using for some of this data

    • Khanzarate@lemmy.worldEnglish
      9·
      13 days ago

      Area would help account for a really large yard, where you may want more eggs, or for a small one, where this calculation simply has too many eggs. So, egg density per square foot (or whatever unit they wanted).

      Undergrowth size to me seems like its accounting for how many eggs simply aren’t found. If the grass is 6" long, you’ll want more eggs because they’ll not all be found.

      This seems to fit especially because they’re added together, which means even a yard that was just dirt, no undergrowth, you’d get eggs from area alone. There’s a floor on it. If it were a separate multiple then no grass would mean no eggs.

  • Khanzarate@lemmy.worldEnglish
    5·
    13 days ago

    If we hold the hunt in a single tall blade of grass we’ll need to fit a lot of eggs in there.