The average person has slightly less than 2 legs.
this post was submitted on 02 May 2026
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Some baby's only half out.
Just keep refreshing. This number is live.
Due to the recent supreme court ruling black people are 3/5 again.
You can't get to a half by adding up fifths.
Anything is possible with American math.
Add 5 whales and 34 prairie dogs and you get 26.5 elephants
Multiply 14 cats by 31 dogs and you get an abomination unto god
Sure you can. 2.5/5
Maybe its your mother that counts for 1,5? 😏
Simple math error. They counted limbs, then divided by four.
That's what happens when your way of counting humans is an equation I guess.
It can easily be rounded before being displayed.
Could have easily done a roundup function....
I watch that
Haven't you ever heard the expression "half brother"?
Typical race condition because birth is not an atomic operation. Count function was called when baby was half in / half out.
Stephen
My half brother.
Scott Weiland said in his song Creep that he was "half the man he used to be". Maybe it's someone like that.
Since this is only counting humans, they've dropped the half biscuit.
They are probably using a formula to count, and forgot to round off.
These guys would not make good cattlemen, they can't round up.
Shark attack
Why is everyone so dumb
would astronauts count?
The number is based on the average birth/death rates around the world, which aren't exact, so there are sometimes a few quirks when it comes to statistics like these, like a weird decimal. As it turns out, there isn't some omnipresent being whose job is to count as all, and no, centaurs, mermaids, and other similar "half humans" unfortunately do not exist.
Bunch of people are on the fence.
people can float
AI slop from Google
Math aint mathing
Might be mething.
Palestinians 'cause you're getting your numbers from Google
You think there is only one half person. Really, there's a lot more than that. It's odd.
They usually count my bottom-half twice.
Are conjoined twins counted as 1.5 persons?
Peter Dinklage