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There are only ~368 grains of sand per ant?
by Eduard 4y ago
There are only ~368 grains of sand per ant?
- ManuelKiessling 4y agoNo wonder I keep reading about sand shortages.
- fragmede 4y agoWell no. See there's this one ant, Jeff, that's hogging them all for itself, so each ant only gets 50 grains grains of sand.
- jwilk 4y agoThe common claim that there are ~7.5E18 (~2.5 × 2⁶⁴) grains of sand seems to originate from this back-of-the-envelope calculation: https://web.archive.org/web/19990117001023/http://www2.hawaii.edu/suremath/jsand.html https://web.archive.org/web/19990117001023/http://www2.hawai... It takes only beach sand into account, and of course there's a lot of guessing involved. It could be easily off by many orders of magnitude.