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

[snow-leopard.livejournal.com]

You could eat them all and see how much more you weigh afterwards.
Probably not very accurate but it would be fun and the sugar high would keep you bouncing for days!!! ; )

[rainbowskye.livejournal.com]

And I suppose suggesting actually counting them one by one would get me a Paddington Hard Stare? *g*
It would while away the time, though..:)
You could always just call them 'sprinklies' and avoid having to think about it. Ostrich approach. Works for me ;)
J xx

[alektoeumenides.livejournal.com]

I hope the cake was more delicious for the effort you put in.

:)

Oh YUM!

[alektoeumenides.livejournal.com]

http://www.russianfoods.com

Says it all.

Although haven't found cierki yet.