Problem 44741. You are constantly moving at a speed v faster than your twin brother. How long does it take before you become 1s younger than him according to the theory of relativity?

Created by Mikael Andblom

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James on 6 Nov 2018

Had to cheat to figure out what you were doing. You've got c equal to the speed of light in a vacuum (299792458 m/sec), which is good. However, you're dividing by 336 days per year (60 sec * 60 min * 24 hours * 7 days * 4 weeks * 12 months) instead of either 365 or 365.25 if you want to include leap years.

It's a good problem, but if you're using specific values for a conversion factor that's important to solving the problem, please make sure you spell it out in the problem description.

Christian Schröder on 27 Nov 2022

On top of what @James said, you also have to multiply by 1.6 instead of dividing by 3.6 to convert the supplied speed v_in from km/h to m/s in order to pass the test suite.

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