At what point is a marriage not a marriage? You can legalize polygamy, but if you were to marry every other human being on the planet, does that still count as a marriage?
How long does it take to carry out a marriage and a divorce? Does it count if you are only married for one minute? What about one millisecond? Do you need a ceremony and paperwork? Does the data need to be recorded somehow?
In the most permissive case, I think we could literally get to infinity divorces per year. Imagine the law assigns every person a place in a finite list, and every day everyone's previous marriages (to Person[i]) are subject to divorce, and they are remarried to Person[i+1] (indices wrap around if greater than the length of the list). In theory this requires no actual paperwork or computation; if you want to know who you are married to, simply figure out what day it is and Person[Day%Person.length] is your spouse, but this was already the case even before you calculated it because the law says so.
Now change the amount of time between the recurring divorce/remarriage event to zero instead of one day. Infinite divorce.
On the other hand I think it's more reasonable that to be married to someone you have to at least kiss them, and that probably takes like ten seconds, so if we can get the human population up to 10 billion and get robots to support our basic needs while we spend our lives getting married, that's 6x60x24x365x10,000,000,000 = 31 quadrillion divorces a year, unless I did the math wrong which is likely.
Edit: forgot to consider that there would only be half as many divorces as people, so just cut that estimate in half
The limit is less divorcing the spouses but getting them.
Let's say you are King Solomon and have 700 wives, you could probably go through the paperwork to divorce them all in 2-3 days. But finding new girls to marry? History didn't record when Solomon was born or when in his reign he got to 700, but if it took like 60 years to get to that number, assuming you can go on at the same rate, that's 11-12 wives you can find in a year.
So, 712 divorces as history's greatest pick-up artist.
2 people as far as I'm aware of it.
It's hard to divorce a marriage of 1 and for a marriage of 3, three divorces are required where all will divorce in pairs.
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By the time you hit two you're really fucking up
There's a curve to it tho. Once you're over 5 or so it goes from being sad to being really funny.
"Wait you got married again?!"
A few things to consider here:
At what point is a marriage not a marriage? You can legalize polygamy, but if you were to marry every other human being on the planet, does that still count as a marriage?
How long does it take to carry out a marriage and a divorce? Does it count if you are only married for one minute? What about one millisecond? Do you need a ceremony and paperwork? Does the data need to be recorded somehow?
In the most permissive case, I think we could literally get to infinity divorces per year. Imagine the law assigns every person a place in a finite list, and every day everyone's previous marriages (to Person[i]) are subject to divorce, and they are remarried to Person[i+1] (indices wrap around if greater than the length of the list). In theory this requires no actual paperwork or computation; if you want to know who you are married to, simply figure out what day it is and Person[Day%Person.length] is your spouse, but this was already the case even before you calculated it because the law says so.
Now change the amount of time between the recurring divorce/remarriage event to zero instead of one day. Infinite divorce.
On the other hand I think it's more reasonable that to be married to someone you have to at least kiss them, and that probably takes like ten seconds, so if we can get the human population up to 10 billion and get robots to support our basic needs while we spend our lives getting married, that's 6x60x24x365x10,000,000,000 = 31 quadrillion divorces a year, unless I did the math wrong which is likely.
Edit: forgot to consider that there would only be half as many divorces as people, so just cut that estimate in half
Marriage needs a contract to be signed, publicity, witnesses, then to be be consumed privately. No minimal time limit to be considered a marriage.
If those are the requirements, I think it would be hard to get the time to under ten seconds though
Considering that divorces are really just separations, you'll have to check the data sheet on the coupling.
Might could need a bit of WD-40 on some o' those couplings.
Why would you want to destroy the water? It's all under the bridge at that point.
The limit is less divorcing the spouses but getting them.
Let's say you are King Solomon and have 700 wives, you could probably go through the paperwork to divorce them all in 2-3 days. But finding new girls to marry? History didn't record when Solomon was born or when in his reign he got to 700, but if it took like 60 years to get to that number, assuming you can go on at the same rate, that's 11-12 wives you can find in a year.
So, 712 divorces as history's greatest pick-up artist.
On a funny side, men could have 365 divorses per year, while women only get 4.
Why is that?
Why not?
Depends if they want expensive weddings
0.5 as in you only get one divorce per 2 years.and if you get divorced 3 times in your life time is already too much but still almost acceptable.
2 people as far as I'm aware of it.
It's hard to divorce a marriage of 1 and for a marriage of 3, three divorces are required where all will divorce in pairs.
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