bathnumber

While lying back in the bath recently, luxuriating, I wondered "I wonder how many more of these I'll have". b = bathnumber b = number of baths yet to come We all have a bathnumber. We don't know what it is, nor can we measure it with any degree of certainty, but it is a precisely defined value. The number of baths you'll have in the future is not yet a set value but one day will be, thus it's possible to muse on what that final total might be. Your bathnumber could be 2, 863 or 9701, indeed it could be any of a number of values, and you might have some idea which of those is closest to yours. But you can't be 100% sure what it is, except in certain unpleasantly fatalistic situations, because the future is not yet set. Your bathnumber can only be calculated retrospectively, counting backwards to today, but can still be estimated which is what today's post is about. My initial estimate for my own bathnumber is that b = 4000. I checked my life expectancy via the government's calculator…