Create algorithms to determine the following:
1)
How many pencils, pens, and markers are stored right now in mugs and other holders?
How many are usable?
How many have been nonfunctioning for more than a year?
2)
How many people within the past hour looked for their glasses, which were nestled atop their head?
How many people looked for their glasses and swept the top of their head without finding them there?
How many found their glasses on the top of their head then looked around to see if anyone saw them?
3)
How many people within the past hour said goodbye to someone they will never see again?
How many people in the past hour passed someone on the street whom they once passed on a street in another city?
How many people were on a bus, train, or plane with someone they went to high school with, and didn’t know it?
4)
How many writers spent more than one minute trying to decide whether to use past or last before hour in the past hour?
5)
How many individual french fries were consumed in the past hour by someone other than the person who ordered them?
How many hands were slapped trying to do the above?
6)
What is the collective weight of all the dog excrement dropped on sidewalks in the past hour?
What is the collective weight of all the dog excrement transferred to trash bins in the past hour?
How many dog walkers confirmed nobody was watching before walking away from their dog’s excrement?
How many people walked away without looking around first?
7)
How many people think that Larry Keating is an underrated comic actor?
How many people have ever mentioned ZaSu Pitts in a Facebook post?
8)
How many people dreamed last night that they told their students, “The decision to place bases 90 feet apart in baseball is the most perfect decision ever made!”
How many people can answer the following question without consulting a map: “If Yankee Stadium had no fences, would a ball that lands in Montreal be fair or foul?”
9)
How many people have wondered about any of the above in the past hour?
10)
How many people have, within the past hour, wondered about all of the above?
