Brendan Janus
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He's retired !!
Groucho's Fact Hunt
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Alanbileysfeathercut
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You can't fold a piece of paper in half more than 7 times
Rolling puff pastry, if you fold it in 3 and roll it out again 7 times you will have 2,187 layers of flaky pastry!
deipnosophist
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The logarithm in base 3 of 2,187 is 7. This (rarely disseminated) tidbit of information is particularly useful to pastry chefs.
He died in 2011. You're making my head hurt.
deipnosophist
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depends on the size of the paper...a piece of toilet paper 10 miles long was folded 13x.*
*the toilet paper was about .5mm thick to begin with.
For single-direction folding, the following equation applies
where t represents the thickness of the material to be folded, L represents the length of a piece of paper to be folded in only one direction, and n represents the number of folds desired.
So, t=.5mm, n=13 and L = about 16million mm (or about 10 miles)
Alanbileysfeathercut
Player Valuation: £80m
Size doesn't matterdepends on the size of the paper...a piece of toilet paper 10 miles long was folded 13x.*
*the toilet paper was about .5mm thick to begin with.
For single-direction folding, the following equation applies
where t represents the thickness of the material to be folded, L represents the length of a piece of paper to be folded in only one direction, and n represents the number of folds desired.
So, t=.5mm, n=13 and L = about 16million mm (or about 10 miles)
Lickle eric
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In captivity ravens can talk very well
Philw
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Size doesn't matter
I think it's clearly been shown that size does matter, but it's thickness that really counts...
deipnosophist
Player Valuation: £80m
absolutely true: if a piece of paper is 400,000km thick, for it to reach the moon, you wouldn't have to fold it at all!!
deipnosophist
Player Valuation: £80m
The cubed root of 10 is about 2.15
And the cubed root of 1000 is 10
Therefore, the cubed root of 10,000 is about 21.5
My insomniacal tendencies lend me persuasion to share such maths trivia because a 2 am infomercial for an air heated oven/cooker exclaimed a '10 litre cooking capacity!!'...and I was set to wondering 'how big (spatially) is that cooker?'
Well, 10 litres= 10,000mls=10,000 cc...and the cubed root of 10,000 cc = about 21.5cm (as above).
The question that then detained me was: 'is a heated air cooker of dimension 21.5cm by 21.5cm by 21.5cm sufficiently large for my cooking requirements?'
Well, yes....
....but to cut a long story short, I didn't buy the cooker because everything I have ever bought in those infomercials has turned out to be crap.
And the cubed root of 1000 is 10
Therefore, the cubed root of 10,000 is about 21.5
My insomniacal tendencies lend me persuasion to share such maths trivia because a 2 am infomercial for an air heated oven/cooker exclaimed a '10 litre cooking capacity!!'...and I was set to wondering 'how big (spatially) is that cooker?'
Well, 10 litres= 10,000mls=10,000 cc...and the cubed root of 10,000 cc = about 21.5cm (as above).
The question that then detained me was: 'is a heated air cooker of dimension 21.5cm by 21.5cm by 21.5cm sufficiently large for my cooking requirements?'
Well, yes....
....but to cut a long story short, I didn't buy the cooker because everything I have ever bought in those infomercials has turned out to be crap.
Lickle eric
Player Valuation: £30m
deipnosophist
Player Valuation: £80m
The Size Of A Cow
Player Valuation: £950k
Their vocabulary is somewhat limited if they're kept upon a bust of pallas though
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