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📣 amar-laksh

Calorie Expenditure During Coding?


Does anyone have any literature on software engineering tasks like coding and calorie expenditure?


  👤 AnimalMuppet Accepted Answer ✓
The only think I can give you is that I recall recently seeing that grandmasters could burn 6000 calories in a tournament match. That's under extremely high pressure, thinking very hard for hours, but physically just sitting there.

https://www.espn.com/espn/story/_/id/27593253/why-grandmaste...

If you don't like that one, Google had several other sources...