"I had become immune to sleep. I suddenly found I had 8 extra hours, my life had been extended by a third"
So when he slept he had 16 hours a day, now he had 24. That's an increase of 50%, so his life had been extended by a half.
I don't think he's talking about the days. I think Ben is speaking of the common statistic that we sleep away a third of our life.
Hence, not sleeping would have his life "extended by a third"
I know a previous poster mentions this, but I have two small differences. Mine is more simple and I don't agree with both sides, since both are moot.
EVEN though its been more than a year since i posted this:
me have cookie.
me divide cookie in three parts.
i give 1 part of cookie to you.
nows i haves 2 parts of cookies.
i just loseth 1 third of cookie. =(
nows i haves 66.6& of cookie remaining, NOT 100%.
i sad.
but you give back part of cookie to me =)
i get back my one thirds of the whole cookie.
even though it is common sense that one part of cookie is 50% the amount of two parts of cookies.
i still extend my cookie wholeness by a third if you consider the cookie as a whole.
Moral of the story:
@pinoy
So, if you start off with 2/3 of a cookie and gain 1/3, you now have 50% more cookie that you originally had. Even if it is 33.333333% of the amount of cookie you could POTENTIALLY HAVE. You didn't gain a third, because it's a third only if you include something that you didn't already have.
Also, you say you got one-third of your cookie BACK, but the OP said EXTENDED. The amount of cookie you have is EXTENDED by 50%. The guy EXTENDED his life by 50%, but he got one-third of his life BACK. Therefore, in this case, it would be 50%.
BTW, this is to everybody: if we want to get really technical, he didn't gain any of his life. When your asleep, your still alive. What do I care, though? I haven't even seen the movie. This is just pissing me off.
I can name every smurf from memory.
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BEST EVER TOPIC ON IMDB.
STEVENF IS OBVIOUSLY A GENIUS!
Actually you are wrong. In terms of the increase it is 50% greater, but if you comapred his lifespan and say it was 60 years of waking and now it is 90 years of waking, the increase is one third of his "new" life span. It's splitting hairs really.
*** I was thinking of the immortal words of Socrates, who said, "I drank what?" ***
But he can't increase from his "new" life span because his "new" life span is 100% of his life. If you increased from that, you would be increasing the amount of time he was alive, which I would assume not to be what happened.
I can name every smurf from memory.
Of course that is technically accurate but the mistake is not that enormous
*** I was thinking of the immortal words of Socrates, who said, "I drank what?" ***
I wonder if the Math part was the first thing or the last thing the OP thought of when watching this movie.
Either way here I got an equation for you
1a) To find a woman you need time and money therefore:
Women=Time x Money
1b) "Time is Money" so:
Time=Money
1c) Therefore
Woman=Money x Money
Women=(Money)*squared
1d) Money is the Root of all problems thus
Money= (square root)Problems
1e) Therefore
Woman=[(square root)problems]*squared
Woman=Problems
~XTC
so funny
were you listening? or were you looking at the women in the red dress?...
I know this is now an old thread with many accurate answers, but I think I can explain the situation really simply, so screw it I'm going to post it anyway. :)
The full line is:
"I had become immune to sleep. I suddenly found I had 8 extra hours. My life had been extended by a third."
Let's just look at the final part:
"My life had been extended by a third."
He's saying that relative to his current 24 hours, he was previously experiencing 2/3rds of awake-life; and 2/3rds of 24 is 16. Essentially he was talking in past tense.
If instead he was talking relative to his 16 hours of awake life he would need to talk in future tense and the line would instead have to be:
"My life will be extended by a half."
For a simpler example consider these two perspectives:
1. I am 18 years old. I experienced my 12th birthday a third of my lifetime ago. (past tense)
2. I am 12 years old. I am half my age away from turning 18. (future tense)
16 times one and one-third = 21 and one-third hours.
16 times one and one-half = 24 hours.
If I had a 16 cm rubber band (past tense) and I had extended it by one-third it would be 21 and one-third cm. But if it had become 24 cm in length, that would mean I had extended it by one-half.
I can name every smurf from memory.
LOL. OP can't read between the lines.
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