Saturday, November 08, 2014

Make a guess, win a book.

The twins' piggy banks are full, so I've slaughtered them. Put in your guess of how much they've swallowed and you can win a (new) copy of Chad Orzel's book "How to Teach Quantum Physics to Your Dog". (No, I'm not getting paid for this, I have a copy I don't need and hope it will make somebody happy.) You can put in your guess until Monday, midnight, East Coast Time. I will only take into account guesses posted in the comments - do not send me an email. I am looking for the amount in Cent or Euro, not the number of coins. The winners will be announced Tuesday morning. Good luck!

32 comments:

  1. $22.22 USD of course - because good things come in twos. :)

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  2. 200,00 €
    your daughters are rich!

    would approximate it to a squashed hemisphere of coins with radius of 10 coins, (2/3) * pi * 10^3 coins ~ 2000 coins
    considering an average of 10 c per coin since most coins are the smaller darker ones

    my guess is 2000 * 0.1 = 200 euros

    Pedro

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  3. Imagine the result if one were to moisten the pile with electrolyte - the Gatorade Device.

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  4. pi*50 Euros/e ~ 57.78654148947128 euros

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  5. Being a twin myself, and having twin sisters, maybe I have an edge.

    $24.05 USD.

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  6. 191,70 €
    Pedro Bicudo's idea didn't look bad to me, but I used a somewhat different radius, and made it a squashed half watermelon, and made wild guesses abuot the relative abundance of Euro coins in small donations (the 50 ¢ dominate, because this is "ne Maak").

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  7. 6398 Mauritanian Ouguiya

    (because it's roughly the area of a triangle of base pi^5 and height 42 in weird units - so I guess there must be some meaning)

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  8. I don't have a dog to teach QM to. Just for the fun, I would bet €100 for each piggy bank.

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  9. 157.33 Euros.

    Does that mean you don't have to know QM in order to teach it?

    Also, will there be behavioral changes to the dog?

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  10. $27.18.

    As a child I had a bank in the shape of a small cash register, with a slot for coins and a lever to pull which would empty the slot into the inside and add the coin's value to a total shown at the top front. When the total reached $10, the back would open and I could empty the bank to buy Christmas presents for my brothers and sister and parents. At a an allowance of a nickel ($0.05) a day, it seemed to take forever to fill up that bank. To this day if I see a penny ($0.01) on the sidewalk I pick it up.

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