Mathematicians have determined that North Korea is the only country capable of repelling a zombie apocalypse due to its high number of soldiers per capita. The term “zombie” comes from Haitian folklore and modeling such scenarios can be useful in other research areas.
They may have had too much time on their hands, but mathematicians presumably solved a question for fans of TV shows revolving around an unlikely “zombie apocalypse.”
As depicted in shows like AMC’s The Walking Dead, there’s probably little hope for the world in the event of a zombie outbreak. But in 2018, Brazilian scientists used models to determine that there is only one country on Earth capable of repelling such a hellish attack: North Korea. According to their calculations, this is because the Hermit Kingdom has enough soldiers per capita – 47 armed combatants per 1,000 citizens – to prevail over the supposedly reanimated dead.
Zombie Story:
The term “zombie” comes from Haitian folklore. A zombie is a corpse reanimated through various methods, most commonly magic.
The English word “zombie” was first seen in 1819, in a history of Brazil by poet Robert Southey. The Oxford English Dictionary says its origin is West Africa, from the Kongo words nzambi (god) and zumbi or nzumbi (fetish).
Acknowledging that the argument is fictional, the researchers say that “learning to model this kind of scenario mathematically can be very useful” in other research, such as economics, biology and social behavior.
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