Counting Hundreds and Thousands

[fluffymark]

While 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*

Comments

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[fluffymark]

I was just thinking that too. Flavoured butter *is* just butter icing, whihc i make most of the time i bake things now. It must have been months since i used icing sugar to make icing. Butter icing is yummier, without being sickly rich. *lickslips*

I don't want to deprive you of your bag space! But i wouldn't say no to you bringing things back for me. *hopefulsmile*

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[alektoeumenides.livejournal.com]

Butter icing is yum indeed...*mmmm* I think I'll be buying some flavoured butter this evening (I did find three rubles when I tidied up my classroom after all...*grin*)

I'll see what I can do about bringing some flavoured butter back - don't worry about the bagspace, it is a worthy cause! Any particular requests? Let me know. But if my stuff gets covered in butter, you'll suffer for it! *grin*

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[fluffymark]

I'd like to try the cocnut and chocolate butter! That sounds yum. Even better would be if you could find some bagspace for a few Cierki (or whatever those chocolate covered cheesy things are called). *lickslips*.
*blinkseyes*
Pleeeeeeeeeeease? :) *begginglook*

*tsk*

[alektoeumenides.livejournal.com]

What do you take me for? The cierki were a foregone conclusion! DUH! I shall be bringing a bag for my mum, a bag for general distribution (read: addiction) and a bag just for you and whoever you care to give them to! You will have to share them out with Emily in the very least: they are sooooo yum! Dunno if veggies can eat them though...depends on how strict they are...you may well torture Catt with them...and Joe Marshall will definately be tortured with them *evil laugh*...ah well, his loss. The word must be spread about cierki! Perhaps the "Russian" deli down the road from my London home sells them? Whistful thinking I fear. Still, we can always hope *grin* There are so many different brands, it's quite silly! But the one you get adverts for is called "Chuda" - they do yogurt and milk too.

Maybe there's a website?

Anyway, must dash, have to interview a prospective student for assessment! EEEP! What responsability!

Re: *tsk*

[fluffymark]

Yay! Cierki just for me!

You're such a star! *largehug*