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[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 days ago

This all assumes all years are measured by the same orbit with no mixing and matching planets or space habitats.

The standard earth year had not been adopted system wide

[–] [email protected] 8 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

Also, we first have to define more precisely what 'being 2' means. E.g., if we just count birthdays and one of them is born on Feb 29th in a leap year, that person 'ages' with 1/4 of the speed.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 6 days ago

This may be why I hated math.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 days ago

I wish I had a QA like this.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Now that’s thinking like a lawyer!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

The funny thing is, when I talk to lawyers (of which I am not one) it's nothing like this, because any human court will understand the intention of the question is arithmetical. It will create legal fictions to paper over affairs, rule the law inapplicable if the sister is dead, and go for lunch.

It seems law is like 90% precisely defined and 10% whatever the courts decide that day. That turns out out to be stable while still fairly immune to edge cases, so it's stuck for centuries.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

You could also simplify by saying that assuming neither of them are dead, at some point while he is 44 she will be 42. Whether or not she is actually his sister seems to be irrelevant, she was stated to be his sister, so regardless of biological data, it is being presented as a fact assumption.

The space stuff is not currently possible and can be disregarded as well.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Ugh, this is what you get when there's no AC.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

Pentester:

42, -7, Yellow, false, null, {{7*'7'}}

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 days ago

!lemmySilver

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