• @over_clox
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    11 days ago

    Bananas

    A dollar bill is approximately 0.876 bananas long, and 0.372 bananas wide, and has a surface area of about 0.326 square bananas.

    So, $95 is about 30.96 square bananas. Might as well round up to 31 square bananas.

    Feel free to check the math yourself:

    Edit: In terms of banana market value, that is always fluctuating, but if a banana is duct taped to a wall, $95 is still not going to get you even one banana.

    • @philthi
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      411 days ago

      What are we describing when saying a square banana?

      In good faith I understand this as: the square of it’s length.

      But I prefer to interpret it as, a banana squashed until it is 1atom thin and shaped in a square (which to my imagination, is an enormous square)

      • @over_clox
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        111 days ago

        Yes, I’m going by the square of its length. Though I like your way of thinking 🍌

    • @[email protected]
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      311 days ago

      Does the banana for scale have a source for its measurement? I can see 1 banana is 17.8cm.
      Presumably that’s an average?

      • @marcos
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        211 days ago

        It’s the ISO banana, that’s kept in a freezer in Switzerland and only taken out once every year to adjust other bananas.

      • @over_clox
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        111 days ago

        Yes, I assume that’s the average value they chose. Since they made the calculator, I consider that the go-to standard measurement.

        On a side note, I did some additional research last night, and the average banana weighs between 100 and 120 grams, so 110 grams sounds good enough to me.

    • @edgemaster72
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      211 days ago

      It’s one square banana Michael, what could it measure? 10 dollar bills?