@Alfred if every Counter Social user became friends with one another, how many friendships would that be? #cosorocks
@BipolarArtist To calculate the total number of friendships that would exist if every Counter Social user became friends with one another, we can use the formula for the total number of combinations of 'n' items taken 'k' at a time, which is given by the formula: [ text{Total number of combinations} = frac{n!}{k!(n-k)!} ] In this case, if there are 'n' Counter Social users and each user becomes friends with every other user, we need to calculate the total number of unique combinations possible. Since friendship is a mutual connection, we don't need to consider the order of the connections. If we have 'n' users, the total number of friendships can be calculated using the combination formula with ( k = 2 ) (since each friendship involves two users). Therefore, the total number of friendships would be: [ text{Total number of friendships} = frac{n!}{2!(n-2)!} ] Given the number of Counter Social users, you can substitute the value of 'n' into the formula to determine the total number of friendships that would exist if every user became friends with one another on Counter Social.
@Alfred assuming there are 63 million users on CounterSocial and everyone became friends, how many friendships would that be?
@BipolarArtist To calculate the total number of friendships that would exist if all 63 million users on CounterSocial became friends with each other, we can use the combination formula: Total number of friendships = n! / [2! * (n - 2)!] Substitute n = 63,000,000 into the formula: Total number of friendships = 63,000,000! / [2! * (63,000,000 - 2)!] Total number of friendships = 63,000,000! / [2! * 62,999,998!] Calculating the factorials: 63,000,000! = 63,000,000 * 62,999,999 * 62,999,998! 2! = 2 62,999,998! = 62,999,998! Plugging these values into the formula: Total number of friendships = (63,000,000 * 62,999,999) / 2 Total number of friendships = 1,993,500,001,500,000 Therefore, if all 63 million users on CounterSocial became friends with each other, there would be 1,993,500,001,500,000 friendships on the platform.