Here is my dad's reckoning. We have adjusted the "movies made" figure to the ones actually released, because the career-starting movies were based on release dates.
Begin with 116 movies for MC in 49 years. How many would MC have made in just 45 years?
116 x (45/49) = 106.5306122...
If by five years from now, i.e. after 45 years of making movies, RDN will have made as many movies as MC would have made in 45 years, then RDN will also have made 106.5306122... movies by then, which is to say he would have to make 37.5306122... new movies in these next 5 years, so he'd better make 38, which is 7.6 movies per year.
I also must point out that we are not actually looking for Robert De Niro to reach a point where he has made exactly the same number of movies as Michael Caine. What we're looking for is an identical rate, so at a given point in De Niro's career he will have made the same number of movies as Michael Caine had made at that same point. As my dad also pointed out,
Sometimes the question you first ask is not the one you really want to answer. I said "a right thing" and not "the right thing" since it can be done the hard way too, but mathematicians are so lazy that they'll think long and hard if necessary to figure out an easier way to do something. Figuring out that it was a right thing to calculate took me about a second, finding the calculator took about two seconds, and punching the buttons took a couple of seconds.
And there's the answer to my question about Dad's rate of figuring too.
So now I am looking forward to watching the .5306122 movie when Robert De Niro makes it. We wouldn't want him to exceed Michael Caine's rate or we might have to do more math.
Thanks Dad, I get the math. I'm glad you did it. My considerable brain power was focused today on more mundane but essential matters.
question: What's your favourite Robert De Niro movie, and do you have any suggestions for movies that he could make quickly enough to catch up with Michael Caine?
mompoet - enjoying the luxury of pointless speculation
I also must point out that we are not actually looking for Robert De Niro to reach a point where he has made exactly the same number of movies as Michael Caine. What we're looking for is an identical rate, so at a given point in De Niro's career he will have made the same number of movies as Michael Caine had made at that same point. As my dad also pointed out,
Sometimes the question you first ask is not the one you really want to answer. I said "a right thing" and not "the right thing" since it can be done the hard way too, but mathematicians are so lazy that they'll think long and hard if necessary to figure out an easier way to do something. Figuring out that it was a right thing to calculate took me about a second, finding the calculator took about two seconds, and punching the buttons took a couple of seconds.
And there's the answer to my question about Dad's rate of figuring too.
So now I am looking forward to watching the .5306122 movie when Robert De Niro makes it. We wouldn't want him to exceed Michael Caine's rate or we might have to do more math.
Thanks Dad, I get the math. I'm glad you did it. My considerable brain power was focused today on more mundane but essential matters.
question: What's your favourite Robert De Niro movie, and do you have any suggestions for movies that he could make quickly enough to catch up with Michael Caine?
mompoet - enjoying the luxury of pointless speculation
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