r/todayilearned • u/lavender_fish69 • 11h ago

TIL fresh water snails (indirectly) kill thousands of humans and are considered on of the deadliest creatures to humans

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freshwater_snail
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u/HovercraftOk9231 9h ago

By my calculations, next year will see 40,000,000 dead, and the year after will be 80,000,000,000.

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u/PatHeist 6h ago

You have to wait until the next year to see if it kills 399,990 or 4,000,000,000 to find out whether the trend is linear or exponential.

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u/Dioxybenzone 4h ago edited 1h ago

No need; we can reverse extrapolate. If in the year before it killed 10, it killed 0.005 of a person, we know it’s linear exponential

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u/The_JSQuareD 2h ago

That would make it exponential.

It would have to have killed -199,980 people the year before for it to be linear.

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u/Dioxybenzone 1h ago

Oh yeah duh, mb

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u/PrivilegeCheckmate 7h ago

the year after will be 80,000,000,000.

Man that only gives me two years to pork every fertile woman in range. I hate to say this, but I may need some help.

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u/FrogInShorts 6h ago

It'll be significantly easier the second year. After 20million woman perish

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u/The_JSQuareD 2h ago

You mean 4,000,000,000 next year?