Not sure.
His $100m looks like it should say $1bn - he seems to have multiplied the $1m by 10 along 3 axes rather than 2.
That means that he's out by 3 orders of magnitude, and leads me not to trust the rest...
Or am I being dumb?
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Enzyme is powered by sunlight, Mon 16 Mar 2009, 13:51,
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you're probably being dumb
you stupid thicko PhD you :)
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t0ria has forgotten how this all works, Mon 16 Mar 2009, 13:56,
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Ah - but...
... I'm also a humanities tart. You can't expect scientific rigour from me.
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Enzyme is powered by sunlight, Mon 16 Mar 2009, 13:59,
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He should multiply along 3 axes as opposed to 2
if he's going up in volume.
Ok, so we can't expect scientific rigour, how about basic maths? ;)
edit: hang on, I bet they're using the american billion as opposed to our good old British billion...
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DrPrunesquallor is determined to post more as of, Mon 16 Mar 2009, 14:04,
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Yup - that's my point.
He seems to have 10x10 stacks; he should have 10x10x10 to get from one million to a billion (assuming that 1 billion is a thousand million).
EDIT - I mean the other way around. What he calls a hundred mill should be 10x10; he's given it as 10x10x10.
Yup. I'm thick.
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Enzyme is powered by sunlight, Mon 16 Mar 2009, 14:06,
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the top layer isn't 10 times bigger both ways
It's an illusion. As are most 100 million dollar amounts it turns out :)
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Professor Fnord Regius Professor of B3ta Chronology, Mon 16 Mar 2009, 14:10,
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Based on his image of 'a packet'
The pallet is only 7 packets wide (assuming one wrap per packet). How this affects everything else, I'm not sure, but I don't see how he can have a tidy cube of 10000 packets if it's 7 packets across the bottom...
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TheAlmightyBeev, Mon 16 Mar 2009, 14:48,
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Yeah
Mr PHD, Doctor Thicky of Clan Mcthick.
I knew you when you just Thick....
Cheers
hates people who try to better themselves....
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Legless Mister Stabby - shanks for the memory, Mon 16 Mar 2009, 14:02,
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No you didn't.
But you got the title right. stricto sensu, I'm not allowed to call myself "Dr" - a PhD doesn't entitle you to do that.
:(
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Enzyme is powered by sunlight, Mon 16 Mar 2009, 14:08,
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I make it about...
... four million feet of money. That lot stacked on you head would diminish your sature a bit!
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lion-cake Bad lion-cake, bad., Mon 16 Mar 2009, 14:05,
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the million has 2 yellow lines so 2 columns the 100 mil has 7 columns
so it's multiplied by 3.5 which squared is about 10, then x 10 vertically = 100.
The viewing angle is different too.
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Professor Fnord Regius Professor of B3ta Chronology, Mon 16 Mar 2009, 14:06,
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lets see...
1 Million = 1,000,000 = 10^6
1 Billion = 1,000,000,000 = 10^9
1 Trillion = 1,000,000,000,000 = 10^12
so 1 Trillion = 1,000,000 Million = 10^6 * 10^6
100 Million = 100,000,000 = 10^8
Each side of the Trillion square has 100 (50*2) pallets. 100*100 = 10,000 = 10^4
10^4 * 10^8 = 10^12 = 1 Trillion
That' right
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Crap Little Monkey Deathstar, so good they built it twice, Mon 16 Mar 2009, 14:46,
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There's something about this that makes me smile and feel all warm inside.
:)
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Enzyme is powered by sunlight, Mon 16 Mar 2009, 14:51,
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It's your subconscious
spotting someone who's the only one in the department today and is really bored
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Crap Little Monkey Deathstar, so good they built it twice, Mon 16 Mar 2009, 14:59,
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