[StratComm]

Originally posted by Charlotte


Find a way to get the "cornerstone" out and the entire thing crumbles

The only problem with that is that if you tried to get the bottom penny out of a stack of pennies several hundred feet tall, the mass pressing down on it from the rest of the pennies in the stack would prevent you from doing much of anything.  The thing is, there is nothing holding the pennies together, so the best way to start making a mess is to go to the top and push a spike in to the pile somewhere near the edge.  Just shove a big spike down one of the holes between 4 stacks; you'd knock the thing over pretty quickly.  Of course, if you could somehow shift the geometry of the whole thing at once, so that instead of a cube you have a leaning box, then THAT would be interesting

[Petrarch of the VBB]

This is the sort of site that makes me want to rant about what a Billion actually is...

1,000,000,000 OR 1,000,000,000,000

[Charlotte]

http://www.kokogiak.com/megapenny/nineteen.asp

[Woolie Wool]

novemtrigintillion  1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000

WHOA!:eek:

That's over a hundred zeroes!

[Petrarch of the VBB]

pff

novemtrigintillion^novemtrigintillion

would be far more interesting.

Though I still prefer Graham's Number, and I demand that someone try to write it down, despite the fact that you can't.

[diamondgeezer]

Originally posted by Sandwich
And DG: Define spam, please.

Post you guys lock forums for with the message 'don't spam'. Actually, you're more lenient towards the S word than the other admins, but if I'd have posted this topic Mr Windrunner or Mr Styxx would have locked it instantly.






See what banning an0n did? Look what you've turned me in to! Er.. yes. Ahem. *runs*

[Mr. Vega]

Actually I have never really tried stacking pennies (or any other coins) like that; do they fit snugly on top of each other? If they are really precariously balanced, even a gust of wind might do it.

The sheer pressure on the bottom pennies will do it.

[Sandwich]

Originally posted by Petrarch of the VBB
This is the sort of site that makes me want to rant about what a Billion actually is...

1,000,000,000 OR 1,000,000,000,000

First one's a billion, second one's a trillion.

Originally posted by diamondgeezer
Actually, you're more lenient towards the S word than the other admins, but if I'd have posted this topic Mr Windrunner or Mr Styxx would have locked it instantly.[/size]

Don't be so sure. At the most base level, it's a math threa- oh. I see your point. Hmm.

[Petrarch of the VBB]

Originally posted by Sandwich
First one's a billion, second one's a trillion.

That's where opinion differs.

1,000,000,000 is one-hundred-thousand million.
Surely a billion should a million-million.

[Charlotte]

Originally posted by Petrarch of the VBB


That's where opinion differs.

1,000,000,000 is one-hundred-thousand million.
Surely a billion should a million-million.

One hundred thousand million is a Helluva Lot more then a billion...

1 Billion = 1000 * 1.000.000

NOT

1 billion = 100.000 * 1.000.000 (that'd be 100.000.000.000)

Every step is *1000 Hence the appearance of 3 new zero's at every step.

[Petrarch of the VBB]

So it is.

I've got to stop trying to prove things at such an early hour.

[Carl]

CP, find the volume of the collosus.

[Turnsky]

so how many pennies would make a planet roughly the size of earth?

[Carl]

let's keep this project going people.

one octillion pennies: about the size of Mars.

[diamondgeezer]

I'm going to say it - stacking pennies is futile

[Fineus]

One... hundred..billion..pennies!

[diamondgeezer]

Originally posted by Sandwich
And DG: Define spam, please.

[Woolie Wool]

Oh...my...GOD...

[diamondgeezer]

[Woolie Wool]

You are a sick, twisted person.