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Imagine being a person so old that all people on earth ~7 billion people are younger than you.

• saagarjha 10y ago
  Well, at some point in time, everyone was once so young that everyone else in the world was older than them.
  • tlrobinson 10y ago
    Ok, but very few people are ever older than everyone else.
    • FlorianRappl 10y ago
      Statistically there has to be one at any point in time :)
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    • tempay 10y ago
      If you're male it's (effectively) impossible. If you're female it looks like the oldest living person title is typically held for around a year[1]. Lets say that means 120 currently living people can hold the title, that gives you a 1 in 29 million[2] chance. Which feels far more likely than I would have intuitively guessed. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oldest_people#Chronological_list_of_the_oldest_known_living_person_since_1955 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oldest_people#Chronological_li... [2] Or half the odds of a given ticket winning the lottery
  • uzoodoo 10y ago
    But only for a very short period of time (4 seconds on average).
    • saagarjha 10y ago
      I think you mean 1/4 of a second :)