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Re: Is lego *truly* unlimited? (some thoughts)
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Wed, 8 Dec 2004 19:12:26 GMT
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In lugnet.general, David Eaton wrote:
> In lugnet.general, Samarth Moray wrote:
> > Some thoughts/comments from the Mathematicians out there?
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> Well, 1st off, there's probably on the order of several hundred billion pieces
> on the planet. I remember reading in some FAQ the estimated number of pieces in
> the world, but I can't seem to find it at the moment. I know they make about 20
> billion pieces per year nowadays, so probably somewhere between 100 billion and
> 1 trillion sounds like a good guess. Let's say 500 billion for argument's sake.
The 2004 LEGO Company Profile white-paper says "Over the years, enough LEGO
bricks have been manufactured to give an average of 52 each to every single one
of the world's 6 billion inhabitants." Another place indicates "Annual
production is about 20bn elements." So figuring about 312bn at the start of
2004, we should up around 330bn at this time ( +/- a billion ). This of course
does not consider how many have been swept up by unhappy parental units and sent
to the dust bin.
So, If BrickLink has 30M elements listed, then BL represents 0.00909% of all
the elements ever made by TLC (assuming I did the math correctly).
Ray
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