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Do they claim it's packed solid all the way through?
by nyeah 1y ago
Do they claim it's packed solid all the way through?
- c249709 1y agonot explicitly, but the implication is strong. otherwise the cube would be almost any size
- florbnit 1y agoThe cube is “almost any size” it’s literally overshooting by 50%
- jerf 1y agoJust for fun, the maximum sized cube you could make with a single layer of them facing flat and then entirely hollow on the inside would be about 41 meters or so on a side. https://www.wolframalpha.com/input?i=sqrt%28%28area+of+a+united+states+dollar+*+1000000%29+%2F+6%29 https://www.wolframalpha.com/input?i=sqrt%28%28area+of+a+uni...
- stavros 1y agoI can't argue with the math, but intuitively that just seems really small? It means that you can lay down 166,000 $1 bills on the floor of a very small flat?
- dogecoinbase 1y ago41 meters is the height of a 13-story building.
- padjo 1y agoA flat with very high ceilings? Edit: even still 41x41 floorspace is a very large flat.
- kaffekaka 1y agoThe square side would be 41 m meaning ~1600 square meters per face, if I read correctly. So quite a large flat.
- stavros 1y agoOh, the side? That makes sense, I thought 41 sqm.
- jerf 1y agoSorry, yes, 41m-on-a-side cube, not 41m^2-sided cube. The outermost square-root in the expression takes the area of one side of the cube (which is the area of the dollars, divided by 6 to account for needing to cover the 6 sides of the cube) and pulls it down to the cube's length of one side.
- stavros 1y agoYeah, you said it correctly, but I'm not a native speaker and brainfarted "41m on a side" into "each side is 41 sqm". I thought "face", rather than "edge".
- ourmandave 1y agoI assume there's a really big ink bomb in the center.
- 0cf8612b2e1e 1y agoI assume that at least 51% of the non visible bill parts have been destroyed. Then you do not care if anyone tries some elaborate heist.
- Nextgrid 1y agoOr if the cube needs to go for maintenance or a rebuild. I very much doubt it's real currency with all the security features and stuff.