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gknoy on Oct 16, 2013 | parent | context | favorite | on: See Your Folks

Fortunately, you can average X and Y, or take the more pessimistic answer and use min(X,Y).

imgabe on Oct 16, 2013 | [–]

You could also do it twice. Once with both inputs as your dad's age and the average number of times you see your dad and the other for your mom, to get separate estimates for each.

Argorak on Oct 16, 2013 | [–]

Very clever. And empathically bankrupt.

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