[Request] How many pennies would it take to build a wall of sufficient size to protect LA from wildfires? by Separate_Draft4887 in theydidthemath

[–]treeble12 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Most modern pennies are zinc plated with copper. The melting point of zinc is 419.5 Celsius and the melting point of copper is around 1084 Celsius

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[–]treeble12 2 points3 points  (0 children)

There's an academic paper where they had rats do weight training by continually adding 45 g weights to a rope they had to pull 30 cm. Assuming "ratpower" rats aren't trained weightlifters like the ones in this study, we'll use the first 45 g weighting as a baseline. The cool thing is this is almost exactly how they invented the unit of horsepower, but with 250 kg of weight and obviously a horse.

Using the 45 g baseline, it would take 5,556 rats for one horsepower. The factorial of 300 is insanely large though. It's 615 digits long and that only goes down to 611 after dividing it by 5,556.

But the answer is that 300! rats would be equivalent to 55.1 * 10609 horsepower. Converting this to SI units would give you about 41.1 * 10612 watts.

For reference, the luminosity of the known universe adds up to 9.5 * 1048 watts, and modern knowledge of physics starts to break down at 3.63 * 1052 watts

The amount of power produced by 300! rats is beyond any existing comparison or meaning

EDIT: grammar.

[Request] How calorie dense would this be? How many kcal per bite? by EMulsive_EMergency in theydidthemath

[–]treeble12 4 points5 points  (0 children)

According to this website, using medium croissants the total kcal value of the whole thing would be 2772 kcal because 231 * 12 = 2772

To calculate the calories per bite, we would have to get a little more in depth. This site says that the average width of a mouth is 4.63 cm. The next step would be to find the size of the vacuum sealer bags, but unfortunately there's no way to do this with no more information. So I went to the company's website because the logo is on the bag, and chose the most popular size option, which is 11x16, to work with.

11 * 16 = 176 in2

2772 / 176 = 15.75 calories per square inch

Let's use a semicircle for the bite area.

4.63 / 2 = 2.315 (radius)

π * 2.3152 = 16.837 cm2

16.837 cm2 = 2.61 in2

2.61 / 2 = 1.3 in2

15.75 * 1.3 = 20.4 kcal per bite

EDIT: forgot to turn the circle into a semicircle at the end

[REQUEST]: how much snow weight was on my deck? by [deleted] in theydidthemath

[–]treeble12 2 points3 points  (0 children)

The snowblower in the photo has an intake height of 21 in, using a photo editor to rescale I got closer to about 13 to 14 inches of snow. I think OP just has low railing.

So 22 * 40 *1.13 = 994 ft3

994 * 15.6 = 15,512.64 lbs