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How Many Homes Will Santa Visit?

The Santa Calculator

What is the current world population (7 billion?):   billion people.
What is the average number of people per home (4?):   people.
What percentage of the world's population not only believe in Santa but have also behaved?:   percent.
What percentage of those homes visited by Santa will leave a snack for him (two cookies and cup of milk)?:   percent.
Click this button for Santa's logistics:
Santa will visit homes every second for a total of homes.
At 1 gift per person, Santa will have to give out a total of gifts.
Santa will eat cookies and drink gallons of milk.

Its a busy day for Santa on December 25. Through the magic of Christmas that only Santa understands, he is able to circle the globe to visit all good believers in just one day. How does he do it? The calculator shown above tries to show how quickly he must do his work. It assumes he only has 24 hours to get the job done. It may require some thought, however, to estimate what percentage of the population are deserving of Santa's visit. What percent of those visited by Santa will leave him a snack? Click the button and check the results. Have fun!

Happy Holidays!



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