[Dragaera] Vlad's Age Revisited

[David Dyer-Bennet]

On Fri, July 9, 2010 11:28, Maximilian Wilson wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 8, 2010 at 3:38 PM, Scott Schultz <scott at cjhunter.com> wrote:
>> Granted it's still pretty vague.  It doesn't give any absolute idea of
>> Vlad's age at this time but it does put an upper bounds of 38 on his
>> age. To
>> my mind, when someone says something like "more than half of blah...",
>> they're usually rounding up, as it were, and trying to put their own age
>> as
>> close to the comparison age as they can.
>
> I don't understand this comment. They already know their age, what
> does it mean to try to "put their own age as close to the comparison
> age as they can"? The only thing I can read from this comment is that
> Vlad probably isn't younger than 31, otherwise he'd think "two-thirds"
> as the closest simple fraction instead of "half." Even that isn't
> completely certain though--Vlad isn't necessarily so math minded that
> picking an insufficiently precise fraction would bother him.

I think it's pushing it to just casually assume they know their own age. 
It's a modern obsession, and it's facilitated by our simple calendar.  And
I still have to do arithmetic sometimes when people ask me.
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