Did they make a mistake, or is my math way off....

In the attached commercial, narrated by Patric Stewart, he says (regarding the human heart):
"it beats 70 times a minute, 50,000 times a day, 18,000,000 times a lifetime".

Well according to my 6th grade teacher, it should be:
"it beats 70 times a minute, 100,800 times a day, 2,759,400,000 times a lifetime" (assuming a lifetime of 75 years).

How can they get it so wrong?

Here's the math.
70 times a minute x 60 = 4,200 times an hour
4,200 times an hour x 24 = 100,800 times a day
100,800 times a day x 365 = 36,792,000 times a year
36,792,000 times a year x 75 = 2,759,400,000 times a lifetime.

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per minute the heart makes the math is pretty straightforward.

On a related note I remember reading something by Issac Asimov on the theoretical limit of the human life span and somehow he came up with a limit of 4 billion heartbeats which in the case of the individual with 70 beats average per minute works out to approx. 108 years. 'course there are a number of other factors that play a role and in many many cases something else gets one before the hourglass of heartbeats is empty.

If 4 billion beats per life time is the limit, and gets you to 108, then every time I turn the key and feel my heart rate rise a little, I am shortening my life span. But it's quality, not quantity, so I'll keep turning the key.

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If 4 billion beats per life time is the limit, and gets you to 108, then every time I turn the key and feel my heart rate rise a little, I am shortening my life span. But it's quality, not quantity, so I'll keep turning the key.

But you get this back everytime the engine makes a funny noise and your heart stops as you think "IMSB".

to not think about it. Priorities.



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