She wasn’t the only one taking shots at Warhol’s art.
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Sometimes it takes me a while to get a joke.
Actually, the exchange went something like this:
Me: Well, I made an appointment with a rheumatologist. They have their own X-ray equipment, so they can X-ray my hip.
Wife: Oh, so a rheumatologist with a view?
Then making dinner last night, I went to the pantry.
Me, mumbling: Let’s see, ah, a can of tomatoes.
Wife: What?
Me: Diced tomatoes.
Wife: Oh, I thought you said “totos”.
Me, pouring contents into pan and mocking wife: OK, one can of diced totos!
Wife: “We’re not in cans anymore!”
I laugh proudly at my wife’s cleverness.
One minute later, I get the Toto part of the joke and laugh hysterically, while realizing (for the billionth time) that I am hopelessly outclassed.
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It’s just a ratio problem. 120:40=60:n Therefore, 40*60/120=n. N= 20 minutes. So, it would just take 3 musicians to play it in a minute. Simple.
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To play it in only 1 second, you only need 0.05 musician.
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That’s me!
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I really hope a math teacher put that in an actual exam just to inject a bit of common sense into the process.
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Are we assuming the musicians are perfectly spherical and playing in a vacuum?
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Very quietly.
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In space, no one can hear hypothetical musicians asphyxiate.
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Are you sure you don’t have the ratio backwards?
My calculations show it would take 4800 musicians to play the symphony in a minute.
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Are you refuting maths? (Har-rumph.) 
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Correct.
If 120 musicians take 40 minutes, then Beethoven’s 9th requires 120 x 40 = 4800 musician-minutes to complete.
Sixty musicians would therefore take 4800 ÷ 60 = 80 minutes, and one musician would complete it in 4800 ÷ 1 = 4800 minutes or 80 hours (two standard 40-hour weeks as per musicians’ union rules).
To play Beethoven’s 9th in 1 minute would require 4800 musician-minutes ÷ 1 minute = 4800 musicians.
Q.E.D.
The problem of how quickly the same 4800 musicians could play Chopin’s Minute Waltz is left to the reader.
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Surely a minute span of time.
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They’re just so friggin’ cute!
(Interesting…it’s showing up as a photo instead of a video, but if you click on the picture you’ll get a new tab with the video.)
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Adorbs!
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I am going to think of this as showing that SOME progress has been made over the last decades, because it’s all too easy these days to really wonder if we’ve gone backwards instead of forwards.
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