There you go. So if your wife or anyone gives you grief for having too many kilts you can show her that it's permissible for you to have an indeterminate number of kilts.. hehe

Actually, at that point you would probably want to reverse the formula, using the number of kilts owned as a baseline to then figure out how many pairs of pants you should have in your wardrobe.

Then, using the same formula, you might end up with something like this:

Eg. I walk around kilted 24/7, I have no less than 40 kilts in my closet and I'd like to rotate through them at least once a year -- how many pairs of pants should I own if I wear a pair... oh, I dunno... Once a month?

Using p = dp * (k/dk): k=40 ; x = 0.25 (with 4 weeks in a month) ; t = 365

dk=[(6.75/7)*365]=352 ; dp=[(0.25/7)*365]=13

Therefore: using p=dp*(k/dk): p=13*(40/352)=1.5

Since you probably don't want to own 1.5 pairs of pants, to be on the safe side you may want to own 2 pairs. If it were me, I'd say a comfortable pair of jeans and a pair of black dress pants should do it!


Yeah, I know -- I am indeed ill. I always hated math when I was a kid... But there really is an austere beauty about it. There's a certain satisfying perfection when you solve a problem. Even in high school, when I finally figured out what the heck I was doing (took almost 3 years - lol) I rather enjoyed factoring polynomials. In university however, I was traumatized by calculus. I still remember a question from my uni calculus final exam to this day!

(Translated from French): Assume a cone of radius "r" and of length "l". If I start pouring beer into the cone from a pitcher, how long will the cone take to fill? guuuuuuuhhhh...

One day, I will yet master the calculus demon. It's one of the things I want to do in life before I die -- learn how to derive and integrate!