Hi 🙂
That is interesting and good math 🙂
Just checked it out : set amount to 10 particles and 200 frames and zoomed in on the timeline so could easely move frame per frame. And indeed, a particle appears every 20 frames, and disappears after 50 frames of livespan so at any moment only 2 or 3 particles are in the scene. That’s probably why he upped the number to 5000 in the course, so we could have a more dense smoke trail.
Greeting
Chris