Counting Hundreds and Thousands
Sep. 9th, 2002 09:44 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
fluffymarkWhile baking more cakes this evening, a question of paramount importance arose:
How many Hundreds and Thousands actually are there in the Jar?
Just looking at the jar, it's obvious that there are many more than a hundred, even many more than a thousand of the little round coloured sugary objects in the jar. But how many? In a highly curious frame of mind, I put it to myself to investigate.
Two methods were used. Firstly by weight. I poured out what I estimated to be about 1000 of them onto my weighing scales, which told me that this many weighed 2 grams. The jar said it held 80 grams, which would be 40,000. The second method was by volume. Estimating the volume of a single hundred and thousand (a cubic millimetre) and then measuring the dimensions of the jar, and a quick calculation of how many hundreds and thousands would fill that volume, gave an answer of about 60,000.
*accomplishedsmile*
Yay! :)
So I claim there are about 50,000 hundreds and thousands in a jar. If anyone can improve on my methods or come up with a more novel way of counting them, I'd be delighted to know! *curioussmile*
How many Hundreds and Thousands actually are there in the Jar?
Just looking at the jar, it's obvious that there are many more than a hundred, even many more than a thousand of the little round coloured sugary objects in the jar. But how many? In a highly curious frame of mind, I put it to myself to investigate.
Two methods were used. Firstly by weight. I poured out what I estimated to be about 1000 of them onto my weighing scales, which told me that this many weighed 2 grams. The jar said it held 80 grams, which would be 40,000. The second method was by volume. Estimating the volume of a single hundred and thousand (a cubic millimetre) and then measuring the dimensions of the jar, and a quick calculation of how many hundreds and thousands would fill that volume, gave an answer of about 60,000.
*accomplishedsmile*
Yay! :)
So I claim there are about 50,000 hundreds and thousands in a jar. If anyone can improve on my methods or come up with a more novel way of counting them, I'd be delighted to know! *curioussmile*
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Date: 2002-09-10 05:13 am (UTC)Rather you than me. But if i get really bored one day, I guess it's something to do.
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Date: 2002-09-10 06:20 am (UTC)J xx
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Date: 2002-09-10 06:51 am (UTC)Don't tempt me, i may just go and eat the lot. :)