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  • Math is hard!
  • Aye.. 1000x10000=10000000.. agreed.
  • Lets see Helen of Troy launched a thousand ships I believe that is right. I always thought correct me if I am wrong but I thought that a picture was only worth a thousand words, so I don't know how that would stack up in this equation.
  • Nope. The Current Market Value for a picture is only a thousand words. However, due to the divestiture of elements of the Trojan war machine, and the rising cost of shipbuilding lumber and workman's comp, insurance, etc...- each individual ship costs about 25000 times more than they costed during the times of Helen. So math says that in today's market, you get fewer words per picture, and fewer ships per face. I will give you a picture of a ship, however, for 15 pictures of Helen.
  • Well, that would depend on a few factors: -When the picture was made. In its later years, the ship-launching capacity of Helen's face is said to have decreased considerably, according to historical records from shortly before her death, she eventually got down to launching only several dozen small tugboats. -Whether or not the ships were made of words (Usually they're made of wood). and, if the ships were in fact made of words... -What language the ships were in. The word for "Ship" is different lengths in different languages, so naturally a ship would be heavier and more difficult to launch in say... Arabic, where it has 8 letters ("Baakhira") than in English, where it has only 4 ("Ship).
  • Uh i dont think so. Just because people can talk about her dosent mean theyll launch their ships to back it up.
  • Today? Shortly......then we'd have to deal with pregnancy, face and breast lift, trouble with the law......
  • No. Even if the picture of Helen of Troy had the same properties as herself, it would mean that a picture that launched 1,000 ships would be 10,000 words worth. So only 10 words per ship.
  • But alas, the number of ships does not equate from the number of words equalling the picture of Helen. A picture of Helen, having the same attributes and qualities of the original Helen, would also only launch ten thousand ships. No matter it's value in words, that being of course one thousand words. The three values being equated here are: 1- The picture of Helen's face 2- 1000 words (the value of the picture) 3- 10,000 ships (the value of her beauty) If you were to reverse the equation; A picture of 10,000 ships, would also be worth,in words, a picture of Helen's face, that being a thousand words. You could look at it this way; If you give me that picture of Helen, we could make a 1000 copies of it, totalling in a million high quality words (coming from such beauty). Right there you've got yourself a well written bestseller, or even a trilogy. Proceeds from which would easily make you enough money to buy ten thousand ships.
  • You're too pretty to be thinking sooo hard yo...
  • Isn't a picture only worth 1000 words? Anyway, assuming it's worth 10,000 words, and her face launched 1,000 ships, then I'd imagine that the ships are worth a maximum of 10 words. Her face itself is akin to an infinite number of pictures, and therefore an infinite amount of words. Why, then, did it only manage to launch 1,000 ships? Was there a ship limit? If so, the people in charge of the ships got quite a deal. (they got payed an immeasurable amount of words for a finite number of ships.) However, if the ships weren't limited either, and all her face could launch was 1,000, then that would mean that a ship is worth infinity/1000 words. This concept isn't surprising, considering "talk is cheap". It would take infinity/1000 words to equal the value of one ship, making each individual word practically worthless. So no, her face isn't worth 10,000 ships. You nearly need to pay someone to take it off your hands.
  • The one I knew worked in McDonalds She had the face that friend a thousand chips!
  • What kind of sick twisted math question is this anyway? Never hide logic and social studies in math... It's just mean! *Smiles... Kidding
  • I really dont know what to think about Helen's picture! Poor thing...

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