For a bit of a giggle...:
The following is taken from Ian Breakspear, 2002.
"You have won a mole of chocolate chips! where to put them?
cool, sounds awesome, a whole mole of chocolate chips - a chocoholics dream... or is it?
Firstly you must store them somewhere. the most obvious place would be the fridge. So, will the mole of chocolate chips fit in the fridge?
Well a standard choc chip is about 10mm in diameter, and has a vol. of about 500 cubic millimetres. An average fridge is maybe about 1000mm high, 600mm wide and 6000mm deep (exclud. the freezer), and so will have a vol of 360000000 cubic mm (3.6x10^8mm^2). So, if you chuck out all the useless junk (like fruit, salad and veggies) you can fit in about 720000 choc chips. Not quite enough.
Now stuff a small house, measuring approx 10mx20mx3m and you will have stored 1200000000 choc chips (1.2x10^9).
well, let's try all houses in a small city (say 1million houses) and you will have stored 1200000000000000 choc chips (1.2x10^15)!
okay, you still have a problem. you still haven't stored anywhere near a mole.
So, in the interests of world peace, international unity, abolition of poverty, and supply of food for all, we decided to cover the earth with choc chips, to the depth of 3m. Now we will have stashed about 1000000000000000000000 choc chips (1x10^22)!
IT WILL REQUIRE ABOUT 60 EARTHS TO FINISH THE JOB, EACH PILED 3 METRES DEEP!
Now let's count our prize!
Being paranoid chocoholics, we must confirm that we have not been diddled. All 6 billion people on the planet will help you. They will all count a choc chip per second, without a break, until finished. That's 6000000000 (6x10^9 chips per second).
So it will require 1.0036666x10^14 seconds) to count them all.
THAT'S 1672777700000 MINUTES OR 27879629000 HRS OR 1161651234 DAYS OR 3180427.7 YEARS TO COUNT A MOLE OF CHOCOLATE CHIPS!
The following is taken from Ian Breakspear, 2002.
"You have won a mole of chocolate chips! where to put them?
cool, sounds awesome, a whole mole of chocolate chips - a chocoholics dream... or is it?
Firstly you must store them somewhere. the most obvious place would be the fridge. So, will the mole of chocolate chips fit in the fridge?
Well a standard choc chip is about 10mm in diameter, and has a vol. of about 500 cubic millimetres. An average fridge is maybe about 1000mm high, 600mm wide and 6000mm deep (exclud. the freezer), and so will have a vol of 360000000 cubic mm (3.6x10^8mm^2). So, if you chuck out all the useless junk (like fruit, salad and veggies) you can fit in about 720000 choc chips. Not quite enough.
Now stuff a small house, measuring approx 10mx20mx3m and you will have stored 1200000000 choc chips (1.2x10^9).
well, let's try all houses in a small city (say 1million houses) and you will have stored 1200000000000000 choc chips (1.2x10^15)!
okay, you still have a problem. you still haven't stored anywhere near a mole.
So, in the interests of world peace, international unity, abolition of poverty, and supply of food for all, we decided to cover the earth with choc chips, to the depth of 3m. Now we will have stashed about 1000000000000000000000 choc chips (1x10^22)!
IT WILL REQUIRE ABOUT 60 EARTHS TO FINISH THE JOB, EACH PILED 3 METRES DEEP!
Now let's count our prize!
Being paranoid chocoholics, we must confirm that we have not been diddled. All 6 billion people on the planet will help you. They will all count a choc chip per second, without a break, until finished. That's 6000000000 (6x10^9 chips per second).
So it will require 1.0036666x10^14 seconds) to count them all.
THAT'S 1672777700000 MINUTES OR 27879629000 HRS OR 1161651234 DAYS OR 3180427.7 YEARS TO COUNT A MOLE OF CHOCOLATE CHIPS!
