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From the department of utterly meaningless yet charmingly geeky milestones (it’s a larger department than you might think) comes word that the United States’ population on Tuesday hit 314,159,265, according to the Census Bureau’s population clock. As all math geeks know, that’s pi times 10 to the eighth, rounded to the nearest whole number.
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Mostly sane, most of the time. Thu, Aug 16, 2012 12:02:11pm |
Oh, great, now you tell me.
I guess we can make it up tonight.
Chocolate cream pie, anyone?
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lostlakehiker Thu, Aug 16, 2012 2:32:53pm |
Strictly speaking, if the population hit 314159265 million, that would be closer to 10^14 times pi.
You didn't mean the "million" in your title. :-)
Imagine a U.S. with 314 trillion people. Our land area is 9 trillion square meters, so we'd have about 35 people per square meter. Of course, with skyscrapers plating the continent to 100 stories, we could assign nearly 3 square meters of living space to each and every person.
Ventilation might present a slight problem. I'm also wondering about how Congress could stay as organized and productive as it now is while reconciling the views of a few billion representatives.
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Gretchen G.Tiger Thu, Aug 16, 2012 3:03:00pm |
re: #2 lostlakehiker
Strictly speaking, if the population hit 314159265 million, that would be closer to 10^14 times pi.
You didn't mean the "million" in your title. :-)
Imagine a U.S. with 314 trillion people. Our land area is 9 trillion square meters, so we'd have about 35 people per square meter. Of course, with skyscrapers plating the continent to 100 stories, we could assign nearly 3 square meters of living space to each and every person.
Ventilation might present a slight problem. I'm also wondering about how Congress could stay as organized and productive as it now is while reconciling the views of a few billion representatives.
The title isn't mine, it was automatically added when I clicked the LGF boomarklet. What I get for assuming the article's title might actually be correct. LOL
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