As the day approaches when you are forced to live in your boarded up basement, clinging to your last can of cat food while reliving the bittersweet memory of having to pummel Uncle Stan to death after he tried to gnaw off your foot, you might be considering a little high end, nerd style computation to help improve the odds of making it at least as far as starvation.

Math nerds at the University of Ottawa have developed a formula for helping you determine just how fast a given population will succumb to the bloody thirst for the living.  See the formula below. According to this, a city of 500,000 will see it’s Zombie population exceed the breathing population in 3 days. Your strategy? The more Zombies you can kill with grandad’s shotgun or Mom’s garden implements, the better the chance of you reaching the Mad Max level of post apocalyptic civilization decay. Remember kids, a slide rule makes a pretty decent weapon. Thanks Wired for your continued assistance in this matter.