I've been runing around in circles

[austin_dern]

Yesterday some food and cold medicine came to S$8.70; I offered a ten and the cashier asked if I had exact change (I often do). I didn't, but I had a 20-cent piece, and got back a dollar coin and a 50-cent piece. Today some food came to $9.30; I paid with a ten and yesterday's 50-cent piece, and got back a dollar coin and a 20-cent piece. I feel like I'm not making any progress.

With digital cable came Animax, an all-anime channel. What's on it? The rough schedule:

• Cute Kids with Magic Tokens Have Fun Doing Stuff For Their Friends, a 65-episode series.
• Pleasant Young Adult Guy Suffers Rather Than Admit Crush On Interested Young Woman, episode 4 of 846.
• In Ruined Far Future Earth Annoying Teens Squabble, 13 episodes.
• Incredibly Sexy Android Women and the Clueless Men Bumbling Around Them, second series.
• Obnoxious Young Adult Guy Becomes Less Insufferable For Devotedly Interested Young Woman, episode 7 of 26.
• Pro Soccer Player Coaches Kids' League Team, 32 episodes.
• In Ruined Far Future Earth Mystical Beings Stop By, 39 episodes.
• Cute Kids Guide Animals/Robots/Robot Animals/Others Through Fights To Save World, fifth series.
• Can These Teens Stop Arguing And Save The World? 52 episodes.
• Genial Young Adult Guy And Android Woman Unaware She's Key To The Whole World: A Romance, 13 episodes.
• Obnoxious Buxom Women On Same Future ``Team'' Endlessly Squabble, third series.
• Eight-Year-Old Girl Lives Pleasant Fantasy With Help From Strange Mystical Friend, 26 episodes.

I really like the last as Twin Spica, about a girl in Space Academy. The opening includes her looking over a Gemini capsule.

Trivia: Every even integer larger than 46 is the sum of two abundant numbers. Source: Lure of the Integers, Joe Roberts.

Currently Reading: The Great Science Fiction Stories 6: 1948, Edited by Isaac Asimov and Martin H Greenberg.

Comments

[austin-dern.livejournal.com]

Hmm, well, it's a good question. I don't know how much by volume change there is in the world anyway ...

I can't help but note that according to one of the Disney Public Information shorts of the 60s, explaining the importance of investment in making the economy work, the Money Bin consists purely of Scrooge McDuck's petty cash; he's not so foolish as to leave his real money laying about where it's not doing anything productive.

[spaceroo.livejournal.com]

If we're talking about the whole *world* then there's enough. (I was assuming it'd be filled with US currency only.)

The problem occurred to me after stumbling across The MegaPenny Project (http://www.kokogiak.com/megapenny/). According to the conversion table an acre is 4047 square meters, which presumably would make a "cubic acre" about 257,500 cubic yards. (Doing some gross rounding, here.) Which of course makes the total capacity of the Money Bin about 772,000 cubic yards. According to the US Mint there are only about 80,000 cubic yards of pennies in circulation, so that only gets you 1/10th full. Even if we optimistically assume that there are as many of each other kind of coin in circulation, and granting that they're larger... my gut tells me we don't make it.

Just as an aside, of course, it's worth noting the Money Bin is about 70% the size of the Empire State Building. Or a nice even half as large as the Sears Tower. The implications of having that much in petty cash are simply mind-boggling.

And yeah, I get really bored sometimes.

[austin-dern.livejournal.com]

Well now you've got me wondering about the ideal and the most probable density distributions of coins, particularly when they're of different sizes and materials. This could be a great way to procrastinate next time I'm almost caught up. That's some pretty impressive piles of pennies, really.

Still, the whole bin does still fit within the Vehicle Assembly Building, so it isn't all that much cash.