Life to 8 decimal points

[robinbloke]

So, that life thing eh? Ever wondered about your quality of life?



"So the universe is ultimately going to collapse in on itself making every human endevour ultimately futile" ~ Bill Bailey

Still, can't grumble eh?
Life 'L' therefore boils down to doing things with your time that you consider worthwhile, or ensuring that optimally as much of your time, T, is put towards activities that either make you feel good, G, give you purpose, P or benefit others that you consider important, O. These are detracted by events that cause you unhappiness, U or are pointless M (aka the 'meetings' variable) finally we have the 'neutral factors for unproductive or neccessary travel, T, between points of G, P, O or possibly U or sleep, Z.

All these values can or will be changed or ignored as this scientific
We now have the basics for the formula for life, we now need a large pile of meaningless statistics to wrap these around in order that we can work out everyones life down to a single number and generate even more statistics.

Are we sitting comfortably? Excellent. We'll start on a per-week basis here, as this is the basic unit of life, our 5 days on, 2 days off. However this also needs to factor in your 'Holiday' quota as well, since Holidays will detract from your work.
The intent of this is to convey your life as a single digit whereby a positive value = a better life and a negative value = a worse life.

So, pass one at our formula with...

Z = Number of average hours asleep per day (weekend)
W = Hours of work per day
F = 'Work factor' % work satisfaction, 0% = I love it! 100% = Hell on earth
Common factors will be rationalised later in order to tidy things up.

L = 2/7 * ((24 - Z) / 24) - F/100 * (5/7 * W / 24)

This is a basic formula for life, on the belief that weekends are good and evenings after work are lost to post work stress disorder (PWSD, for a future paper) However it has been scientifically proven that it is possible with sufficent amounts of alcohol and/or other factors to have a good time on a weekday evening, and also possible to have a bad time on a weekend:

We add our factors now
G = % chance of having a good weekend (measure your good weekends against bad)
E = % chance of having a good evening after work (similarly)
T = Time of travel to/from work/day
z = average sleep on a week day

This gives:

L = 2/7 * G/ 100 * ((24 - Z) / 24) + 5/7 * E/100 * (24-T-W-z)/24 - F/100*5/7*W/24

Now who says life isn't easy, eh? This can all be boiled down to the following...

L = G/350 * (24-Z)/24 + E/140 * (24-T-W-z)/24 - F/100 * 5/7 * W/24

Where

Z = Number of average hours asleep per day (weekend)
W = Hours of work per day
F = 'Work factor' % work satisfaction, 0% = I love it! 100% = Hell on earth
G = % chance of having a good weekend (measure your good weekends against bad)
E = % chance of having a good evening after work (similarly)
T = Time of travel to/from work/day
z = average sleep on a week day

Now viewer, you can calculate how wonderful your life is by applying the formula above, see maths can be fun!

For reference, the author currently rates his life as: 0.24226092

Where 1.0 is utter constant bliss and -1.0 is an utterly horrid existance.

DISCLAIMER: I hereby disclaim all responsibility for anything numbers generated by for or on behalf of this formula do or effect in your life. If one of these number attempt to mug you I am not liable or indeed anything other than yet another bystander in the giant statistics of life. Eat some ice cream, hug someone you love or go drain a few beers dry, life is what you make of it and seeing postive things always helps you see life more postively, in my experience anyway.

Comments

[whotheheckami.livejournal.com]

I'm not sure about this but I think polys may need to use imaginary numbers to solve theirs because there could be multiple solutions! Isn't it x = -b +/- (root( b**2 - 4ac)) / 2a or something like that ;@)

[robinbloke.livejournal.com]

Ah the joy of quadratic equations...

The formula was carefully derived from random rambling and is therefore about as accurate as anything else in the world.

[whotheheckami.livejournal.com]

Like the quadratic formula when I tried to solve one recently. BTW I suggest that you run away screaming and gibbering if snowyfeline asks you for help with her Computing Homework. She had to manaully step through and record every data change in a programme that creates 7x7 magic squares -so totally mindless and so easy to go wrong. The only point I could see in doing the exercise was to make you appreciate how useful a computer is for doing dull repetitive stuff.

[robinbloke.livejournal.com]

Well, the solution to her situation is obviously to write a program to record and detail the changes so you don't have to, since it's a computer question ;)