Tarantino, being a connoisseur of Fake Blood, used several types of Fake Blood in the film Kill Bill II ranging from good splatter to free-flowing blood. According to one fanzine, in this film, Uma Thurman killed 88 opponents with a sword. So the numbers(above)are in the right ‘blood-soaked’ ballpark. More survival math (The Hunger Games) here.
Posts Tagged ‘death’

Braindead Math for Halloween
October 13, 2021
Death by Chocolate: Yes! Chocolate can kill. But how much would kill you?
February 24, 2021Choco Yum Yum! Mathspig lervs chocolate. But did you know chocolate can kill you?
Chocolate contains a chemical called Theobromine. This alkaloid ( other alkaloids include cocaine, nicotine, caffeine, and strychnine) can kill humans. More info Wired Magazine.
How much chocolate is too much?
Firstly, the darker the chocolate the more Theobromine it contains.
According to About Chemistry based on the highest possible toxicity:
* Vetmedicine: Cooking chocolate contains 8-10 times the Theobromine in Milk Chocolate.
According to Wired large doses of theobromine may cause “nausea and anorexia ….. sweating, trembling and severe headache.”
The Royal Society of Chemistry notes that chocolate does not contain caffeine, but theobromine induces similar symptoms.
LD50 for the lethal dose for 50% of the population for Theobromine is:
1000 mg/kg 0r 1gm/kg of body weight in humans
Death by Chocolate Calculations:
1. FORMULA
2. GRAPH
3. Percentage

Death by Chocolate for DOGS
February 22, 2021
Chocolate can be fatal to dogs. As dogs are small they can easily eat enough chocolate to kill them. According to The Royal Society of Chemistry
The National Geographic has an amazing interactive chart for dog poisoning by chocolate.

Death by Chocolate for CATS
February 21, 2021Chocolate contains a poison called Theobromine.
LD50 for Theobromine for cats is 200mg.
LD = Lethal Dose. LD50= Lethal Dose for 50% of the population. Cats in this case. This is how poison toxicity is measured.
According to The Royal Society of Chemistry, cats are hypersensitive to Theobromine but, as cats cannot taste sweetness, they are rarely poisoned.

1 Year COVID-19 … some curious stats
January 22, 2021
DAY 200 Covid-19 .. some curious stats
August 8, 2020Mathspig has been tracking the Covid 19 Stats through the Worldometer tracker and calculating the AVERAGE NO. DEATHS per day at the 50, 60, 70, 80,, 100 and now, the 200 DAY mark. The average is still rising which, as the average started low, is not good news. What can I say? Mask Up, folks.
MATHSPIG is reporting in from lockdown in MELBOURNE, Australia, where mask-wearing outdoors is now compulsory, there is an 8pm-5am curfew and travelling more than 5km from your residence is banned.

Day 100 Covid-19 .. Some Curious Stats
May 5, 2020Day 100 of World Wide Covid-19 data.
Finally, the New York Times published graphs that show the severity of the Coronavirus death rate compared with average weekly death rates. Here is the graph for New York City, which shows during the peak of the Covid-19 Crisis there were 6,000 more deaths per week than expected from the average weekly death rate, which was approx. 1,000.
The death rate was 6 times the average death rate. That is a terrifying statistic and explains why we are all in lockdown or are slowly coming out of lockdown. Meanwhile, in the rest of the world death tolls are still increasing.
Excellent Covid-19 stats update here.

Day 80 Covid-19 .. Some Curious Stats
April 17, 2020Many statisticians are using 3-day and 7-day averages to track the Covid-19 death and infection rates worldwide.
Mathspig is using the total average of deaths per day since stats were first published from 22 JAN 2020. When this average drops … that will be a sign for cautious optimism. But not yet!!!!
Excellent Covid-19 stats update here.
