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Re: Santa (Physics, you gotta love it! : ) )
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lugnet.off-topic.fun
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Thu, 21 Dec 2000 23:07:56 GMT
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Leave it to Larry to spoil all my fun! ; )
> This is an oldie but a goodie (not as good as "is hell endo or exothermic"
> but a goodie).
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> It has one major flaw though...
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> This assumption:
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> > Assuming that each of these 91.8 million houses are distributed evenly
> > (which we know to be false but for the sake of these calculations we will
> > accept), we are now talking about 0.78 miles per household, a total trip
> > of 75.5 million miles, not counting bathroom stops.
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> Given population clustering the mean interhouse distance is far far less.
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> And one minor one:
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> A medium LEGO set does not weigh 2 pounds. That's a pretty big one,
> actually... 600 pieces or so.
Yes Larry, but I thought it was amusing, not for super analysis, not for
debating either, hence the fun part?
Scott S.
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| In lugnet.off-topic.fun, Scott Edward Sanburn writes: This is an oldie but a goodie (not as good as "is hell endo or exothermic" but a goodie). It has one major flaw though... This assumption: (...) Given population clustering the mean interhouse (...) (24 years ago, 21-Dec-00, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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