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Forum Dad
 United States
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OK, I just stumbled on this site from Wikipedia. Maybe I'm just high on the Phillies right now and reading something wrong but there is no way that one cubic foot of cents weighs 100 pounds more than I do. (307 pounds) A large USPS flat rate box stuffed full of wheaties is only 75 pounds. If you don't believe me, BiggFredd will tell ya, right BF?  |
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Pillar of the Community
Canada
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Forum Dad
 United States
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very cool site though! Well, making a cool site is easy if you just make stuff up.  |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Interesting trivia...I suppose it all depends how densely packed that cubic foot is? Just out of curiosity, I looked up the weight (lbs) of a solid 1 cubic ft block of various metals: Aluminum 165 Brass 534 Bronze 509 Copper (rolled) 556 -- very close to my calculations using 8.96 g/cc Nickel 541 Gold 1204 Silver 653 Edited by KurtS
10/10/2008 6:34 pm
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Valued Member
United States
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A new copper U.S. cent weighs approximately 3.11 grams.
There is 453.6 grams per pound. That works out to 145.85 cents a pound, or $1.4585 per pound.
If a cubic foot of U.S. cents does indeed contain $491.52, that would put the weight at 337 pounds.
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Pillar of the Community
Australia
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Strange things happen when you go cubic. The entire worlds population would fit in 1 cubic mile.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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The entire worlds population would fit in 1 cubic mile. I'd hate to be be near the bottom of that cube.  I've read that world gold production ( 50 million troy oz.) would fit inside a 4.3 meter or 14 ft cube. |
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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Strange things happen when you go cubic. The entire worlds population would fit in 1 cubic mile.
HOWEVER, is that when you posted that or now? Or are you not including the birth rate in India and China? |
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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Just out of curiosity, I looked up the weight (lbs) of a solid 1 cubic ft block of various metals:
Aluminum 165
Brass 534
Bronze 509
Copper (rolled) 556 -- very close to my calculations using 8.96 g/cc
Nickel 541
Gold 1204
Silver 653
Totally impossible for Bronze. The mixture that makes Bronze varies so dramatically that the weight must also vary massively. All of the above are pure elements except Brass and Bronze. Those are mixtures of metals and although USUALLY, not always, even Brass is non consistant a mixture. I also am suspecious of that original cubed pile of cents. If all pre 1982 then they would be the Copper ones but if you threw in the later ones, there would be a lot less weight. I wonder who spent the time piling those up for that photo or do you suspect it is a photoshop image? |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Carl, ok--that was just a weight I took from a list since the copper seemed close. I suppose the real way to test this theory is to get a 1 x 1 x 1 ft box, fill with cents and weigh. |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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I remember a problem like this from an advanced math class where you calculate statistical range of minimum free space of round objects such as balls or coins, and there is a significant difference from stacked like in the photo and random arrangement such as in a bag. I don't remember if I did it or not  and certainly not any specifics. I hear now the same type of problem involves how many "Pringle" shaped chips ypu can get in a can comparing stacked to random. No wonder they sell by weight Jim |
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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My friends and I started filling a 5 gallon pickle jar with cents in 1989. By 1992 we had the jar almost half full. Say 2 gallons worth. I loaded the cents into 2 coolers (lunch box size - about 6 quart) and took them to the bank. The coolers were extremely heavy (around 80 lbs each) and cashed them out for $251!
I'd say a cubic foot of cents could easily weigh 300 pounds!
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Valued Member
United States
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My dads got 3 water cooler jugs full of cents, Id hate to try to left even one of them.
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Forum Dad
United States
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I'd say a cubic foot of cents could easily weigh 300 pounds! Well, as I said, many, many, times I've stuffed a flat rate box full to ship out. They are about 2/3 of a cubic foot and they have never been over 75 pounds. |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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900 rolls per cubic foot .
4.45 ounces per roll
4005 ounces
divided by 16
250.31 pounds .
formula ,,, 15 rolls wide X 4 rolls long = 60 rolls per layer X 15 layers = 900 rolls X 4.45 = 4005 / 16 = 250.31 pounds
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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With the cent at 19 mm it would take a row of 16 x 16
So each row of 16 X 16 is 256 cents
It takes 206 cents to make a foot
So 256 x 206 = 52,736
5,000 cents roughly weighs 30 pound
So I would say it is pretty accurate
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Posted 10/10/2008 6:31 pm
