Thread:TheHumanAmbassador/@comment-26907577-20190903100614/@comment-32182236-20190903180256

I'm honestly not sure what to assume anymore.

If I knew exactly what caused magnetic tapes to decay, I'd be able to give an answer to whether or not we should expect Gaster's tape to do the same thing.

We should naturally expect a bias towards the later years, because of the growing population-From 275 million in ~1000 to 7 billion in 2011.

You're less likely to have a human fall in the entire 11th century (1001-1100) than it is for a human to fall in 2015-2019 alone, considering the world population.

If we take the population of a given century, and multiply it by 100, that is propotional to the number of "chances" a human has to fall in that century. (The number of chances is actually a constant "c" TIMES that number. But it doesn't matter what "c" is. Mainly because we don't know what the odds of a human falling every time there's a "chance" to fall is either. But we know that's constant as well.)

We can then divide it into 100 parts, to get the number of "chances" of a human falling within that year. (Each year has 1/100 of it. ..With bias towards later years that is beyond calculation.) Likewise, we can average the population of every individual year in a century... And multiply it by c again to get the number of "chances" a human has of falling in the entire century.

If we assume the war happened in 1000AD, then it's less likely for a human to fall within 1000-1600AD, then it is for a human to fall within 1960-2019AD.

(But since Chara was the first human, they still probably fell well before 1960.. And we're still forgetting about the years in between 1600 and 1960.)