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An iPhone 6's dimensions are 5.44 x 2.64 x 0.27 inches. If you laid them flat on a football field, orienting them the same direction as the field, you could fit
by WesleyJohnson 10y ago
An iPhone 6's dimensions are 5.44 x 2.64 x 0.27 inches. If you laid them flat on a football field, orienting them the same direction as the field, you could fit roughly 661 between in columns between endzones and 727 in rows between sidelines. That would give you a single "layer" of 480547 phones. To reach a billion, you'd need 2080 layers. At 0.27 inches thick, that would rise 561 inches into the air, or nearly 47 feet. That's a 4 story building plus an NBA player.
Hopefully that math checks out.
- flukus 10y agoCan we stick to ISO units please, like how many times they would reach the moon if we laid them end on end.
- captaincrowbar 10y agoI believe the standard SI unit for this sort of thing is the Olympic swimming pool, but I think we can allow the use of football fields in a forum where many users are still familiar with the US customary system.
- bane 10y agoWell, how many libraries of Congress can all these phones hold?
- lucaspiller 10y agoAs a European I started reading football and assumed "soccer". I have no idea how big an Amaerica football field is in comparison.
- vacri 10y ago100 yards long, not including endzones, and 53.33' yards wide. Convenient, eh?
- camillomiller 10y agoThe day will come, dear Americans, when you will have to finally get your measuring sh*t together! :)
- logn 10y ago"The metre was originally defined in 1793 as one ten-millionth of the distance from the equator to the North Pole" If we assume one iPhone to be 5 inches then we can span the equator to the North pole 12.7 times (5 inches is .127 meters).
- taejo 10y agoThe estimate of the distance from the equator to the North Pole was off by about 20%, though.