Wedeck shouldn't need a bug to know what's going on in his office, he is the boss; my guess is that he just asked someone. He's not that good a guy, remember that he blackmailed the president back in episode 5...
Frost could know the date of his death the same way Noh does, i.e. through communication with someone who has a flashforward to after that point. Or if he can have flashes to chosen dates then it should only take 13 or 14 to identify the date of his death.
I do like Wedeck though - he's had a few nice one-liners throught he series. But I only trust him by instinct really, and sometimes my instincts are way out! Hmm, we'll see.
Didn't Frost say he knew the date of his death from his flashforwards? I forget exactly.
OOI, why 13 or 14? Or was it not intended to be as specific as it sounds?
The short answer: I guess that his remaining natural lifespan was around 40 years, and log2(40*365)=13.8.
If you assume it's in the next 40 years then you can flashforward 20 years and see if it's in the next 20 years or the 20 years after that. Then you look either 10 or 30 years hence to narrow down to one of four particular decades. Then 5, 15, 25 or 35 years hence to narrow down to a 5-year window. In total it takes 14 goes to reduce from 40 years to one particular day.
He probably has a better starting estimate than 40y - for instance he might have happened on a blank flashforward while looking for something else, which would give him a lower maximum to start with.
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Wedeck shouldn't need a bug to know what's going on in his office, he is the boss; my guess is that he just asked someone. He's not that good a guy, remember that he blackmailed the president back in episode 5...
Frost could know the date of his death the same way Noh does, i.e. through communication with someone who has a flashforward to after that point. Or if he can have flashes to chosen dates then it should only take 13 or 14 to identify the date of his death.
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Didn't Frost say he knew the date of his death from his flashforwards? I forget exactly.
OOI, why 13 or 14? Or was it not intended to be as specific as it sounds?
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The short answer: I guess that his remaining natural lifespan was around 40 years, and log2(40*365)=13.8.
If you assume it's in the next 40 years then you can flashforward 20 years and see if it's in the next 20 years or the 20 years after that. Then you look either 10 or 30 years hence to narrow down to one of four particular decades. Then 5, 15, 25 or 35 years hence to narrow down to a 5-year window. In total it takes 14 goes to reduce from 40 years to one particular day.
He probably has a better starting estimate than 40y - for instance he might have happened on a blank flashforward while looking for something else, which would give him a lower maximum to start with.
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