• Death_Equity@lemmy.world
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    5 months ago

    2,004,717,056 seconds is 63.569 years. Stephen Hawking died at 76. 76 minus 63.569 is 12.43.

    He was diagnosed when he was 21, so the spell duration should be 1,734,480,000 seconds.

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      5 months ago

      It doesn’t say “paralyze…” it says “chance to…” so maybe it is multiplying that chance to paralyze times the number of seconds to come up with your estimate of how long he was paralyzed. It is the expected number of seconds of paralysis time to compensate for the risk of it not triggering.