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Ludicrous Precision
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For whatever reason, very intelligent people in fiction are incapable of summarizing anything. No matter what you ask them, you'll get exactly what you asked for, with way more detail than is necessary. No robot will ever say "it's pretty darned likely" or even "about one in 8000 that you'll fail"; they say "There is a 99.9875653 per cent chance of success". Common in Spock Speak and Robo Speak. Spock often estimated time in tenths (and later hundredths) of a second, which is of course useless as the sentence takes several seconds and there is no understood convention of exactly what instant that would refer to, even if one were capable of tracking time with this precision. This happens most with numbers, but can show up in factual explanations as well. When you ask your Robot Buddy if the air is breathable, odds are he'll go into more detail than you really need. Note that in real life, the concept of significant figures means that, depending on the circumstances, ending a number with a lot of zeroes is both intuitive and practical. Use of overly precise statistics to verify claims will often be a sign of pseudoscience rather than proper scientific method. This is particularly true when the statistics in question could not have realistically been measured to that degree (i.e. the margin of error is being ignored) or if they are subject to major fluctuation anyway. This is very frequent in Exact Time to Failure counts; this is largely because the more figures are shown, the faster the timer appears to be counting down. This, of course, lets the hero stop the timer at exactly 0:00.01. See also Mouthful of Pi and Good with Numbers. Often used by characters like the Clock King. Sounds like, but is (usually) unrelated to, Improbable Aiming Skillsnote The few times that they are related are when the mass, force, and trajectory of a missile are explicitly and precisely calculated. ...And 99¢ is a trope that plays with this one. Compare to Your Days Are Numbered and the Non-Natural Number Gag. Not to be confused with Unnecessary Time Precision, which is doing unnecessarily complicated time calculations when requested to recall a date. |
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Terminator: Terminator 2: Judgment Day: After the good Terminator blows up several police cars, we see his heads-up display which shows "0.0 CASUALTIES". This doesn't make much sense no matter whether "casualty" is interpreted as "death" or "injured person": The former would imply there is such a thing as partial death, while the latter means that the Terminator blew up a number of cars with a minigun and a grenade launcher in such a way that not a single policeman suffered even a minor burn, cut, or bruise. James Cameron explained that they tried using a simple 0, but thought it looked silly, so the decimal was added per Rule of Cool. Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines: When John threatens to kill himself with a gun in order to blackmail the Terminator to attempt to save Kate Brewster's father, the T-850 claims to calculate on the basis of John's "pupil dilation, skin temperature and motor functions" an 83% probability that he won't pull the trigger. |
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In Worm, Dinah Alcott's predictions of the future often feature percent probabilities to five decimal places. | |
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Terminator 2: Judgment Day: After the good Terminator blows up several police cars, we see his heads-up display which shows "0.0 CASUALTIES". This doesn't make much sense no matter whether "casualty" is interpreted as "death" or "injured person": The former would imply there is such a thing as partial death, while the latter means that the Terminator blew up a number of cars with a minigun and a grenade launcher in such a way that not a single policeman suffered even a minor burn, cut, or bruise. James Cameron explained that they tried using a simple 0, but thought it looked silly, so the decimal was added per Rule of Cool. | |
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In Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, the addresses of Harry's Hogwarts letters change from "the Cupboard Under the Stairs" to "the Smallest Bedroom" to "the Floor" (of a one-room shack), depending on where he's currently sleeping. | |
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Admiral T'nae of Star Trek Online has a habit of stating probabilities that something will happen in percentages out to two decimal places. | |
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Scorpion: Sylvester is able to make incredibly precise mental calculations in a matter of seconds at least Once per Episode. | |
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Cozy Grove gives its version numbers in more detail than the average player will need. For example, the version that the PS4 knows as 1.07 is "Version 1.7.1.s+210508-0128+5c7229c-E33" on the Options menu. | |
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Munchkin has a monster called "3,872 Orcs". Because apparently your characters bother to count the orcs. Fortunately they count as one monster. | |
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The World Ends with You Sho Minamimoto. Seriously, the incantation he uses for his ultimate attack is reciting 156 digits of pi, rightfully earning him, at least at time of writing, the page image for Mouthful of Pi. Konishi also gives the exact amount of time Sho's late to a meeting when he's first introduced. |
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Fushimi Saruhiko of K knows everything about Yata Misaki, including his height which is 167cm...well, 166.9 cm to be exact. The ludicrous precision stems from the fact that he knows even though Misaki himself doesn't know his own height. Played for Laughs but if you think about it, kinda creepy. | |
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Linus Tech Tips: One of the many problems discussed in "Why our Screwdriver took 3 YEARS" said the ratchet would jam on one of the production samples. The problem turned out to be a lever made 1/5000ths of an inch out of spec. Because it's a lever, the error ended up getting multiplied and causing the jam. | |
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C-3PO pulls one in The Empire Strikes Back: | |
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RainbowDoubleDash's Lunaverse: In "Nightmares Yet to Come", Midnight can recall how long it's been since she and Trixie last spoke to nearly the hour. Averted in a later talk, when she's evidently having a breakdown and can't recall how long exactly they've known one another (somewhere around eight to nine years). | |
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In Enterprise, "Hull integrity" is just their replacement word for shields, which would lead to the ship being just fine until it hit 0%. Although components, like warp and weapons can fail at a much earlier time, and as soon as the shields are down, they usually get boarded. | |
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Quark. After all the crew bar one has escaped from a Gorgon warship, Captain Quark tells Ficus to blast off in four minutes if he hasn't returned with the last crewmember. Being a parody of The Spock, Ficus asks if that's four minutes from "now" or four minutes from the start of their conversation. | |
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David Weber's Honor Harrington books are full of this. He often gives ship velocities to 6 significant digits, when those ships are accelerating at rates that make the last three digits change in the time it takes to read the number. On one occasion he had a character verbally give a "time to grav lance range" in hundredths of a second, and almost nobody in the series will say something like "about five minutes" when "two-hundred-ninety-three-point-two seconds" is more accurate. However, sometimes there are Ludicrous Inaccuracies, such as "four thousand KPH—make it sixty-seven KPS" in Echoes. Yes, KPH is kilometers per hour, and KPS is per second. And it is averted at least once, when the time to impact is stated as "170 seconds from... mark." Not that it's hugely important either. Even when characters are giving approximations they'll often use more precision than makes sense. For example saying "approximately thirty-one minutes ago" when most people would say "about half an hour ago". |
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The Simpsons: In "The Wizard Of Evergreen Terrace", Homer hears that the average man lives to be 76.2 years old, and freaks out because, since he's 38.1, his life is half gone. He's more upset when Marge points out that he's actually 39. In "Lisa's Sax", which is a Whole Episode Flashback, toddler Lisa is asked how old she is. The answer "Three and three-eighths" helps ascertain that she's a genius. |
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Super Smash Bros. Ultimate measures damage percentages to an extra decimal point, although the digit after the decimal is significantly smaller. | |
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My Hero Playthrough: After Izuku punches the Zero Pointer to save Ochako, he tells Recovery Girl he tried to calculate the best spot to hit the robot to tip it over backwards without tearing it apart. When he receives the acceptance hologram, All Might tells him the smart people at UA did the math and Izuku was 1.6 meters below the optimal point. After their first Dungeon run, Izuku drops a large mound of bills and coins on the table, and a few seconds into the resulting conversation Ochako says that it is two million, eight hundred fourteen thousand, six hundred yen. |
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Played for laughs in Metal Wolf Chaos where Jody flat-out guessing it will take the Alcatraz Cannon four minutes to recharge turns out to be accurate to the nearest hundredth of a second. | |
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In Onidere, Tadashi has calculated how long he can hug his easily excitable girlfriend so that she stops crying, but doesn't pass out (7 seconds). | |
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At one point in the Naruto fanfic Time Braid, Sakura, who has picked up chakra-sensing abilities, says something to Naruto along the lines of "I can't help feeling that you're, um, two thousand, seven hundred and thirty times as strong as me." | |
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In He-Man and the Masters of the Universe (2021), when Teela asks her Parental Substitute Man-E-Faces how long he's known her, his Machine face can calculate the time down to the second; Sixteen years, nine months, four days, three hours, and point-seven minutes. | |
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Friend Computer will happily help you to analyze given data, calculate chances and present you the results that are available for your clearance. Success rates of Troubleshooter missions increase by 740% with the use of thorough data analysis. | |
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FE000000: You can set up to 10 digits shown after the point. However, 3 digits of precision for most values and 5 for some which are generally better when shown more precisely are more than enough. | |
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In Crest of the Stars, Admiral Trife's chief of staff seems to enjoy listing ludicrously precise probabilities in response to his superior's queries. | |
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Discussed in Adam Neely's video "This BPM is Trash, and Here's Why", where he explains that there is (almost) no reason to ever define a music's tempo in fractional beats per minute, because humans cannot perceive such fine differences anyway, and even when an offbeat is audible, the musician often does not perceive it as such, and musical scores are imprecise by their nature in any case, meaning that different people may record precisely the same sound in a different way. The only real use for fractional beats per minute is if one needs to precisely synchronize a soundtrack to a film, since even imperceptible differences would add up after a while, but even then, he doesn't like it. | |
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Chapter 85 of Moby-Dick deals with the question of whether the whale's spout is water or vapour, a question which has lasted from the beginning of history until | |
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Love at First Sight (2023): The narrator (who is all but stated to be a supernatural being) frequently tosses precise statistics at the audience. For example, she tells us exactly how many lights are on in London on December 21st, many neck pillows are on the flight, how long the wedding/memorial lasts down to the second, what percentage of guests are crying, and so on. | |
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Neon Genesis Evangelion manages to reconstruct this trope. They announce there are 32768 possible causes for the accident. Then, you realizes it was a Genius Bonus: exactly 2 to the 15th power. And then, because the estimation comes from Magi, you understand it's what computers (which use binary) will say instead of "thirty thousand". Playing the trope straight, Ritsuko will often give extremely low percentages of success (often something like 0.000234%) to the strategies NERV comes up with against the Angels. Naturally, they usually succeed. It's justified in that the top brass are secretly following prophetic documents, so they know the strategy will work, regardless of its conventional probability. Though it is amusing to speculate that if NERV does everything else the same way, their operating budget could include future lottery winnings. |
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The clock in Castelo Rá-Tim-Bum always knows at which time Dr. Victor is going to arrive in the castle, down to the second. | |
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The Big Bang Theory Sheldon Cooper. Ask him a simple question and you'll get a lengthy dissertation, mostly on how wrong you are. And sometimes he'll give it to you even if you don't ask. Often, said dissertation merely explains how the question is badly formed or predicated on erroneous assumptions. While Sheldon is the worst offender, the other characters (except Penny) do this, too. Leonard discusses a kiss with Leslie: "Well, the Earth didn't move. Except for the 383 miles it was going to anyway." |
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Saguru Hakuba from Magic Kaito is known for tracking the time to the exact second. He takes note of all kinds of seemingly unimportant events, making him look obsessive. In one case, for example, he is sitting at a dinner table at a detective contest and takes note of the exact time that everyone leaves the room to go to the toilet. In this case, though, this turns out to be useful afterwards. At the end of another case, he introduces himself to Aoko Nakamori by giving his body measurements and a list of his interests in a unfittingly casual way. | |
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In Momo, one of the grey men giving his age (down to the second). Justified, since they're not human. | |
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Kamen Rider Build: The physicist Sento Kiryu kept count of how many times he has been accused of murdering Takumi Katsuragi. It's 329 times in the span of couple hours. Katsuragi himself was also way into weirdly exact numbers, such as when he meassured his excitement as 9.8 megaton. | |
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An episode of Stingray1964 had the villain torturing Marina by slow electrocution. According to the dialogue, for her species the difference between a non-fatal and a fatal dose is very precisely defined, and is only a few volts. | |
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Civilization: Not only is your empire's degree of culture quantified, it's even given to one decimal place. | |
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The Angry Beavers: Daggett achieves this while hiding under the floorboards. | |
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Norby: In the original Norby, the Mixed-Up Robot, while Jeff and Norby are in Albany's police car, Jeff estimates that they're thirty stories up in the air. In this comic, Norby declares that they're exactly thirty stories in the air. The added precision is unnecessary, as the characters are worried about falling. Being off by one or two stories isn't going to matter much. | |
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xkcd discusses this in relation to precision of latitude and longitude coordinates in comic 2170. | |
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When asked how old she is in A Wrinkle in Time, Mrs Whatsit has to think for a moment. She then replies that she is exactly 2,379,152,497 years, 8 months, and 3 days old (by Earth standards, which she doesn't consider very accurate). | |
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In Avengers: Infinity War, Doctor Strange looks through 14,000,605 versions of future. | |
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Applied then subverted in The Powerpuff Girls (1998) episode "Him Diddle Riddle". The girls are tasked with determining where two trains will collide as part of a series of riddles. Blossom frantically works with an abacus then tosses it to the side saying "We're superheroes. Let's just find the trains and stop them!" | |
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Disney Ducks Comic Universe: Often Played for Laughs in the comics of Carl Barks and Don Rosa, where it became a Running Gag to give the value Scrooge McDuck's fortune as some ludicrously huge number plus sixteen cents (or similar). | |
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In Bob and George, during the Fifth Game arc, Mega Man wonders who the next master is (after he had cut Gyro Man to ribbons), and then come to a card that says "Crystal Man" and the odds of it answering Mega Man's question; 1 in 2^24,036,583. | |
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Sanders Sides has Logan demonstrate this. | |
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In the Sky Girls OVA, Karen uses this to show that she is the team's The Smart Guy. | |
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From Deep Space Nine: Bashir becomes insufferable for this after it was revealed he was genetically engineered. Even his actor hated it. He provides the likelihood of the success of the Dominion in the Dominion War to two decimal places. For reference, the Dominion War is a massive conflict involving four of the most powerful organizations in the galaxy. He also uses this trope to calculate travel times in a damaged ship faster than the computer could, despite it making no sense for him to be able to calculate this without being some kind of warp-travel/impulse-travel expert, never mind it being an enemy ship they barely understand the workings of in the first place.note In case you were wondering: "Seventeen years, three months and two days. Give or take an hour." It's even lampshaded by characters in-universe how unnatural he is being. It didn't stop the writing staff from continuing to do it, however. This trope is Lampshaded in "Take Me Out to the Holosuite": In the framing story of "Trials and Tribble-ations," Department of Temporal Investigations agents Dulmur and Lucsly exhibited this trope with time calculations, including day-of-week: |
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In Going Postal, Mr. Pump the golem berates conman Moist von Lipwig for his criminal lifestyle, citing that although he's never used violence, the deprivation of his victims has cumulatively killed 2.338 people. Later, Moist questions the accuracy of this. | |
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Parodied in Archer, where one episode begins with Cyril trying to present a report where he insists on using metric units, which Archer and Mallory both complain about. From then on in the episode, they always replace any approximate or idiomatic use of units to exact metric conversation, like Archer making a "firm 12 inch" joke and sarcastically correcting himself with ".305 meters". | |
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Yuki Nagato from the Haruhi Suzumiya series, who is a ridiculously human alien. Probably the prime example of her ludicrous precision is the "Endless Eight" arc, where she breathlessly tells the rest of the SOS Brigade exactly how many times the past two weeks have looped (Which is thousands of times, mind you) and how many times certain events did or didn't happen during these loops. | |
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The 14 Amazons does this in Lu Chao's introduction. A slave under Tangut captivity, the Tangut chieftain questions Lu how long he's been serving in their prison. Lu's reply? | |
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In South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut, when Kenny goes to Hell, there's a sign that shows the population which is 923,565,421,221 and counting. | |
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Chiasmata's Archivist. | |
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Star Trek doesn't just do it with numbers, either. Whenever they discuss an order or regulation, it isn't enough for them to cite the regulation's number, they also know the applicable section and paragraph. While most modern-day servicemembers are fairly well-read in terms of their branch's regulations, not many can tell you which paragraph the relevant information is found in off the top of their head. Sometimes justified by them looking up the regulations ahead of time. | |
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The Incredible Hulk: Greg Pak likes to demonstrate Bruce Banner's intelligence by having him spout random math problems and ridiculously precise probabilities in his speech. Amadeus Cho always talks like that. The one thing he can do is work out the exact probability of pretty much anything, so he likes to do so. He can also use said ability for Improbable Aiming Skills by calculating in an instant bullet ricochet, etc. During Chaos War, when almost the entire population of Earth was put into a trance, Cho warned that at least 32451 people could die due to things such as being in speeding vehicles or in the middle of surgery. |
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D'Nerd in The Bots Master often spouted off really precise statistics, though this took a backseat to his being completely incapable of carrying a standard conversation. | |
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Girl Genius is about Mad Scientists, so it should be expected: | |
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In The Waste Lands, Blaine (a sentient monorail train) can tell if someone is lying using voice analysis, which he claims has a reliability of 97% plus or minus 0.5%. | |
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Lampshaded in Space Quest 6: | |
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L from Death Note is prone to giving exact percentage probabilities that Light is Kira. According to the author, they were all made-up anyway, as any time L said this he was almost entirely sure of it. | |
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In an episode of The Real Ghostbusters, the heroes are in a castle that is being beseiged by an army of skeleton warriors. Peter wonders how many there are, and Egon counts out the exact number. Peter quickly tells him he didn't really want an answer. And that's not the only instance of Egon engaging in this trope. | |
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In the new Knight Rider, Michael is poisoned. KITT has a countdown to his death that goes into the hundreths of seconds. KITT would do this in the original too (though rather less ludicrously), by giving distances to the tenths place, correcting times if they were a minute off, etc. |
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In Known Space, Ringworld was built in 936,607 BC, one of the most precise prehistoric dates ever made. | |
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Ron in Kim Possible goes through an entire episode like this, despite not being the brainy one... he just takes a big interest in his dad's work (Mr. Stoppable is an actuary). | |
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In Farce of the Three Kingdoms, when the Emperor asks him, Guan Yu knows precisely how many hairs there are in his beard. | |
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Doraemon: Great Adventure in the Antarctic Kachi Kochi ends with the heroes disappearing from the past - before the ice age - after saving mankind from the dreaded planet-destroying monster called Blizarga. Then comes the final scene - 100,000 years and one week later. | |
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Used for the opposite effect in To Kill a Mockingbird. When asked by the judge during Tom Robinson's trial, Mayella Ewell gives her age as "nineteen-and-a-half." The fact that a nineteen-year-old still thinks of her age in halves serves to show that she doesn't get out as much as she should. | |
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Maggy, the ship AI in Hellspark, starts out like this, though she comes to grips with the concept of verbal approximation as the story progresses. Also deconstructed at one point when she gives a 25% probability of a particular outcome and then admits when pressed that all this means is there are four possibilities, which she's assuming are equally probable only because she has no data by which to judge their actual likelihoods; it also turns out that her lack of data misled her and there are considerably more than four possibilities, rendering the entire calculation useless. | |
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This is J. Jonah Jameson's gimmick in The Spectacular Spiderman. "I want that report in 18 seconds!" When Peter first met him he was ranting that he'd emailed that Parker kid 76 minutes ago. | |
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Leftover Soup discussed—and, in fact, justified—an example in the commentary to comic #201. | |
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In Tales From My D&D Campaign, the heroes learn that if they engage Lord Kintemazu, he will kill exactly 1.5 of them. This seriously creeps the heroes out as they try to figure out how he could know the outcome of a combat so accurately. | |
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Exploited in an episode of The Adventures of Jimmy Neutron, Boy Genius, when Jimmy came up with an idea to get rid of his robotic servants on a mission to "correct error" who had reasoned humans are inherently extreme errors that must be deleted. When Jimmy said pi equals 3, the robots tried to correct him, exploding before they achieved Ludicrous Precision. | |
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The Star Trek: The Original Series example above is spoofed in Muppet Babies, where Gonzo (as Spock) takes so long to say the fractions on the odds that he has to be cut off by someone. | |
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In the Pony POV Series, Twilight is able to time events to the point second in her head. She explains that some of the more complicated spells require that kind of mental precision in order to cast. | |
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Pokémon: The American version of Pokédex entries are known for converting round metric numbers into imperial measures without any rounding. Thus all small Pokémon are lumped into measurements of either 4 inches, 8 inches, 1 foot, 1 foot 4 inches, etc. And in the case of temperature: "Regice cloaks itself with frigid air of negative 328 degrees Fahrenheit." In Japan, it's -200 degrees Celsius. | |
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Subverted in Don't Look Up: When Kate offhandedly says how much time is left until the asteroid hits down to the exact second, Dr. Mindy openly wonders how she can state that so confidentially. At which point she replies that when they did the calculations a few days prior, she put in the predicted impact time into a diet-tracking app on her phone. | |
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Zero X One Zero C takes place in the year 281,474,976,712,644. 0x is a prefix used in C, a computer programming language. Specifically, 0x10c is equal to 16^12, the number of years since 1988, after people were put in a deep sleep. | |
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Played with in Sylvie and Bruno, when Bruno estimates that there are "about a thousand and four" pigs in the field outside. When told he can't possibly be sure about the "four" part, he insists that that's the only part he's sure about—there are four pigs right under the window, but he can't be nearly as precise about how many are in the rest of the field. | |
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M1014 in Girls' Frontline is afraid of heights, specifically noting that even getting in an elevator makes her antsy if it goes any higher than exactly 3.54 meters. | |
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TRON: | |
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In The Mouse Watch, this is one of the specialties of Candroid, the titular heroes' Robot Buddy. | |
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Used in at least one version of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. Justified by Rule of Funny, and in particular in this case because it's coming from the narrator. | |
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In the SpongeBob SquarePants episode "Have You Seen This Snail?", the "Dirty Bubble Challenge" can be beaten by hitting a paddleball over 29,998,559,671,349 times in a row. | |
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In Neither a Bird nor a Plane, it's Deku!, K.E.L.E.X. has a habit of providing uselessly precise calculations of probability. For instance, when Izuku panics after believing he'd been transported into space, K.E.L.E.X. tells him not to worry as even if he had actually been sent into outer space, he would have a 98.436926454038% chance of being able to breathe in a vacuum. | |
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In Accel World, the Purple King has an Energy Donation special move that drains her own Special Attack gauge to recharge someone else's, with the recipient getting 1.60217662 times as much as Thorn gives. After Thorn calculates the amount to nine decimal places, Haruyuki mentally notes that describing the rate as 1.6 times as much would have sufficed. | |
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Missing (Sherlock Holmes): Discussed Trope. In the beginning drabble, Lestrade reflects that it's been a week since Watson went missing and he hypothesizes that Holmes knows the exact number of hours and minutes. | |
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My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic: In the episode "Fall Weather Friends", Pinkie Pie is commentating on the Running of the Leaves, and at one point she tries to figure out exactly how far ahead of Applejack Rainbow Dash is: In "Just for Sidekicks", when Rarity is directing Spike about caring for her cat Opalescence, she proclaims that Opal requires a precise 81.4 degrees (scale unspecified, presumed to be Fahrenheit) to be comfortable. When she is in the library to hand Opal off to Spike, she states, "It's a chilly 81.2 in here." |
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Doctor Who: K9 is prone to this, even needing to be snapped out of infinite repetition when a percentage goes into repeating threes. | |
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Blake's 7. It's not just the Master Computer who needs to be precise. | |
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Every video on YouTube tells the exact number of views it's had. This can get very impressive when some have views in the billions. YouTube is simply the largest video sharing site, but really any lesser known website with videos or games could qualify. The number of views on a channel are even higher. | |
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Ultimate Galactus Trilogy: Nick Fury tells Xavier that he has resources and a bottomless budget to improve Cerebro and help him make contact with Gah Lak Tus. Xavier asks Jean how much money they would need: it would be near the Gross National Product of Germany. Xavier then asks Fury "Define 'bottomless'". | |
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At the start of Conquest of Space (1955), the commander tells off his Number One for being one second out in his estimate of how late is a resupply shuttle, saying that a single second can be important in space travel. This is certainly true, though it's more to establish him as The Neidermeyer. | |
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JAG: Despite not wearing a watch Mac can tell you what time it is, or how much time has elapsed, no matter what the situation is. She says that she's usually accurate to within 30 seconds, and when people ask her how she does it she just says "It's a Marine thing." | |
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Spencer Reid in Criminal Minds does this all the time, much to his teammates' annoyance. Lampshaded at one point: | |
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The original Leeroy Jenkins Video: "I'm coming up with thirty-two point three three, repeating of course, percentage of survival." (The subtler joke is that "thirty-three point three three repeating" is an overelaborate way of saying "1 in 3 chance," a much more believable result; so their statistics guy probably doesn't know what he's doing, much like the rest of the team.) Ascended to Ulduar, where the Archivum Console spouts a similar line. |
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Macaulay Culkin's character Kevin in The Pagemaster is a Lovable Coward obsessed with statistics as a way of controlling any potential danger that could befall him. Accordingly, he cites all sorts of statistics for how risky various everyday activities are. | |
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Raven from Code 7 is very good at seeing the dementions of things; for example, when entering a corridor on Heleos Station, she immediately informs you it's around 3.4 times 1.85 meters in dementions. Because of this ability, she is often annoyed when things aren't aligned properly. | |
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In Deadpool (2016), the titular character counts the time since Francis turned him into a mutant. | |
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Barney Miller: In "The Recluse", a loon is brought in ranting about how The End Is Nigh. When Barney says "Yes, Mr. Roberts, but the question is when?", Mr. Roberts catches him by surprise by saying "5:30". | |
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During the supercomputer Watson's run on Jeopardy!, whenever Watson was asked to make a wager in Daily Double or Final Jeopardy, it would bet amounts as precise as the show's rules would allow, based on its calculations on how likely its answer was correct. Human players almost always bet round numbers. Watson, instead, would bet amounts like $6435 or $947. (Arguably, it could be used as an error check; if it got two separate answers right or wrong, but the bet amounts were wildly different, it could mean something about either Watson's data, or the logic it used to pick the answer in each case. The same as every other contestant, really.) | |
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Throughout Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (2014), Donatello spouts crazy-precise probabilities and distances. Mostly he has the aid of a wrist-mounted computer, but this appears to be calculated in his head: | |
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In 2021's Dune, the Mentat of House Atreides Thufir Hawat can calculate what a ship and navigators cost for a space travel to Caladan in an instant and with extreme precision. The brains of Mentats in general are trained to become living supercomputers. | |
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In Tyrian, according to one data transmission the Zica race have been dead for 421965032 years, 14 days, and 32 minutes (SCI estimation, of course). | |
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In Firefly, this is how River killed three of Niska's henchmen: She memorized their positions and "did the math." | |
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In Brennus, Brennus and Polymnia give ludicrously precise measurements for the depth of the Diggerer's tunnel (1.121134 miles beneath sea level). Exposed's blog gives her measurements as 1.71837468991 meters tall and weighing 78.22223485771 kilograms. | |
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Dr. STONE: When Taiju awakens from his petrification, he finds his friend Senku waiting for him, who tells him it is now October 5th, 5738 AD; the entire human race has been petrified for almost four thousand years. How does Senku know such a precise date? When he was in his horrific And I Must Scream state, he maintained his sanity by counting the seconds. | |
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At one point in Durarara!! Shizuo Heiwajima tells someone that there's a 0.0000000000000000000675% chance that you can kill someone with a glare before beating the shit out of him. That's roughly one in a billion trillion; if he tried it on each and every person in the world a trillion times, he'd only kill about 10 of them. Must have taken a while to narrow down that probability. | |
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From Voyager: Inverted in "Imperfection." Tuvok scans a destroyed Borg Cube and announces the remains of approximately 37 Borg drones. When Tom comments that that number doesn't sound approximate, Tuvok clarifies that he's rounding based on the number of Borg pieces that he can detect. Defied For Laughs in "Good Shepherd", as Janeway took a group of lesser known crew members on a away mission to get to know them better. One of them admitted that she has a really hard time keeping up with all the insane calculations and tech stuff that comes second nature to everyone else. In the climax of the episode they were racing away from a shockwave and she counted down the seconds until it hit them, when she reached zero everyone flinched preparing for impact. When nothing happened they all looked at her and she said "More or less." Then the shockwave hit them. |
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Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines: When John threatens to kill himself with a gun in order to blackmail the Terminator to attempt to save Kate Brewster's father, the T-850 claims to calculate on the basis of John's "pupil dilation, skin temperature and motor functions" an 83% probability that he won't pull the trigger. | |
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In the first episode of Drawn Together, Xandir claims to have died 8,293,506 times (not counting quad forces and power ups) saving his girlfriend...and he's gay. | |
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Feng Shui: The Gambler Archetype has this as its Unique Schtick. | |
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Several of the creepypastas featured in Retsupurae's Crappy Pasta series tend to be rather specific about time, producing such sentences as "This continued for 25 seconds" or "I sat there for maybe 25 seconds, horrified by what had just happened." Even funnier, the times themselves are often implausible, like spending 10 minutes running Mario down a featureless corridor. | |
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Kuyou Suou in Kyon: Big Damn Hero counts time in "rotations", with each one taking about 1/1500th of a second. | |
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Wikipedia articles sometimes fall victim to this; for instance, the article on The Big One roller coaster stated that its £12,000,000 cost to build equated to "$19,669,316" — which assumed that the cost was exactly £12,000,000.00 to the penny (and used the wrong conversion rate anyway; probably the rate current at the time of editing, rather than at the time the coaster opened in 1994). A far more reasonable statement of the cost would be $20,000,000 (or $18,000,000 if the correct conversion is used). Averted if the editor uses the convert template, which automatically takes care of significant digits. |
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Data, from The Next Generation, regularly practices this during the show's first season, and is hushed nearly every time. Since then, he's learned that most people don't really care for specifics of such length. Being an android, Data can count all the seconds. Lampshaded in "The Loss": In "Future Imperfect", Riker starts to suspect that he's in a Faked Rip Van Winkle scenario, so he asks Data how long it would take to travel to a starbase. The fact that Data couldn't give a precise answer helps confirm it. |
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