@EfreetSK@lemmy.world to Today I Learned@lemmy.worldEnglish • 22 days agoTIL the highest paid athlete of all time was Roman charioteer Gaius Appuleius Diocles, earning total ~$15 billion over his careeren.wikipedia.orgexternal-linkmessage-square33fedilinkarrow-up1235arrow-down117
arrow-up1218arrow-down1external-linkTIL the highest paid athlete of all time was Roman charioteer Gaius Appuleius Diocles, earning total ~$15 billion over his careeren.wikipedia.org@EfreetSK@lemmy.world to Today I Learned@lemmy.worldEnglish • 22 days agomessage-square33fedilink
minus-square@tetris11@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkEnglish2•22 days ago35,863,120 sesterces = (times by 2) 71,726,240 loafs of bread = (divide by 3) 23,908,746 USD Isn’t that right?
minus-square@Womble@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglish4•edit-222 days agono, you are dividing loaves of bread by 3 to get USD, that would only be right if a loaf cost 1/3 of a dollar. The sequence should be money in Sestertius / (Sestertius per loaf) = loaves loaves * (USD per loaf) = money in USD
minus-square@tetris11@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkEnglish4•edit-222 days agooh, doy! blinded by the numbers, fixed now Let me know if you spot any more goofs
35,863,120 sesterces = (times by 2) 71,726,240 loafs of bread = (divide by 3) 23,908,746 USD
Isn’t that right?
no, you are dividing loaves of bread by 3 to get USD, that would only be right if a loaf cost 1/3 of a dollar.
The sequence should be money in Sestertius / (Sestertius per loaf) = loaves
loaves * (USD per loaf) = money in USD
oh, doy! blinded by the numbers, fixed now
Let me know if you spot any more goofs
Ah, I see you already got it. 😄👍
Why are you dividing by 3?