Talk:3019: Advent Calendar Advent Calendar

Would this basically be triangle numbers? So on Christmas Eve you would open 300 windows?Tommyds (talk) 16:01, 2 December 2024 (UTC)

Yes and no. It's not 12 days of Christmas (as mentioned in the title text), so only the overall number of gifts are a triangle number; you open 30 windows on Christmas Day. The 12 days ref is key as the song generates more gifts if taken literally even in 12 days -- 78 on the last day, 66 on the previous day, etc, for a total of 364. Mneme (talk) 16:35, 2 December 2024 (UTC)

Notice that this year The Advent calendars are correct. Normally, Advent calendars start at the 1st of December even if the Advent starts at a different day. But this year the Advent also starts at the 1st of December. 162.158.172.40 16:55, 2 December 2024 (UTC)

Donald Knuth wrote a paper for April 1984 Communications of the ACM that included an analysis of the complexity of 12 Days of Christmas. It's in the CACM archive https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/358027.358042. 172.70.211.144 (talk) 16:58, 2 December 2024 (UTC) (please sign your comments with ~~~~)

The explanation currently says "each day, he gets another advent calendar, which each contains 24-25 different items". I don't think that's correct; look at the picture: each day's calendar has one fewer item than the previous one. For example, the 24th only has 2 boxes and the 25th only has one. --Itub (talk) 17:25, 2 December 2024 (UTC)

Perhaps each smaller advent calendar might also contain a smaller advent calendar and so on ...? 172.70.90.199 17:51, 2 December 2024 (UTC)

Since the 1st has a calendar with a 1st, that would mean an infinite number of calendars just on the first day, so probably not. 172.71.154.225 18:03, 2 December 2024 (UTC)

It could work out if you don't open the first window of a new advent calendar on the day that it is revealed. So on day 1, you open the first window revealing an advent calendar that starts on day 2. Then on day 2 you open the second window, revealing a second advent calendar and the first window of the day 1 advent calendar, revealing a third advent calendar. ... and so on. If my mental math on that is right, it's doubling every day, so 2^24 =~ 16M calendars in total? (I could be off by a day) 172.71.147.69 19:38, 2 December 2024 (UTC)

Can we just take a moment to appreciate whoever named the bot for this page? They wrote as follows: Created by 4 ENVELOPE BACKS 3 NERDS A-EDITING, 2 TURTLE BOTS, AND A FUNNY NEW XKCD. Willintendo (talk) 23:26, 2 December 2024 (UTC)

That note is hand-edited on the first couple of edits. Not sure why that rule exists, though. Fabian42 (talk) 00:50, 3 December 2024 (UTC)

The title text says 'may' twice, "per day may may [sic] seem absurd" --198.41.236.163 00:01, 3 December 2024 (UTC)

The German YouTube channel "Malternativ" has actually done this a couple years: Opening one advent calendar every day. He went more and more insane as December went on… Fabian42 (talk) 00:50, 3 December 2024 (UTC)