Comments on: How many GB would one file cabinet hold? http://militantplatypus.mps-games.com/blog/archives/4101 A list of websites of interest Wed, 21 Oct 2009 13:26:24 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: mcshnobe http://militantplatypus.mps-games.com/blog/archives/4101/comment-page-1#comment-151521 mcshnobe Wed, 27 Feb 2008 22:49:40 +0000 http://www.militantplatypus.com/blog/archives/4101#comment-151521 Going backwards to see how far off we were, I back calculated the stripes to be about 5 thousandths of an inch thick. Probably a bit thin for durable reflective paint.... Going backwards to see how far off we were, I back calculated the stripes to be about 5 thousandths of an inch thick. Probably a bit thin for durable reflective paint….

]]> By: mcshnobe http://militantplatypus.mps-games.com/blog/archives/4101/comment-page-1#comment-151516 mcshnobe Wed, 27 Feb 2008 21:20:46 +0000 http://www.militantplatypus.com/blog/archives/4101#comment-151516 Mind you, this was some time ago and some assumptions are no longer valid... We asssumed roughly 1,700 miles of four lane divided highway. (Obviously, many places along the stretch have many more lanes these days) Since this was well before cell phones and we didn't carry calculators with us, made the math as easy as possible. We came up with needing about 4.5 gallons per stripe per mile. Having two solid lines on the sides and dashes down the middle we came up with needing just shy of 40,000 gallons of white paint. We never really figured out how to count the paint on exit/entrance ramps though.... Mind you, this was some time ago and some assumptions are no longer valid… We asssumed roughly 1,700 miles of four lane divided highway. (Obviously, many places along the stretch have many more lanes these days)

Since this was well before cell phones and we didn’t carry calculators with us, made the math as easy as possible. We came up with needing about 4.5 gallons per stripe per mile. Having two solid lines on the sides and dashes down the middle we came up with needing just shy of 40,000 gallons of white paint.

We never really figured out how to count the paint on exit/entrance ramps though….

]]> By: jwelch1523 http://militantplatypus.mps-games.com/blog/archives/4101/comment-page-1#comment-151512 jwelch1523 Wed, 27 Feb 2008 20:20:35 +0000 http://www.militantplatypus.com/blog/archives/4101#comment-151512 my calculations differ. A letter sheet is 215.9 mm × 279.4 mm. Giving 5mm on all sides that becomes 206 x 269 printable area. Which is 55414 mm^2. 1 pt is a character that covers .3527 mm^2. Given 6pt as the smallest readable type, that becomes 2.116 mm^2 per character. So 55414 / 2.116 becomes 26187 characters per side. Or 52374 per sheet. That becomes 641 pages per song. my calculations differ. A letter sheet is 215.9 mm × 279.4 mm. Giving 5mm on all sides that becomes 206 x 269 printable area. Which is 55414 mm^2. 1 pt is a character that covers .3527 mm^2. Given 6pt as the smallest readable type, that becomes 2.116 mm^2 per character. So 55414 / 2.116 becomes 26187 characters per side. Or 52374 per sheet. That becomes 641 pages per song.

]]> By: MILITANTPLATYPUS http://militantplatypus.mps-games.com/blog/archives/4101/comment-page-1#comment-151503 MILITANTPLATYPUS Wed, 27 Feb 2008 17:53:26 +0000 http://www.militantplatypus.com/blog/archives/4101#comment-151503 jwelch: I think so mcshnobe: so...how many gallons was it? jwelch: I think so

mcshnobe: so…how many gallons was it?

]]> By: mcshnobe http://militantplatypus.mps-games.com/blog/archives/4101/comment-page-1#comment-151502 mcshnobe Wed, 27 Feb 2008 16:31:15 +0000 http://www.militantplatypus.com/blog/archives/4101#comment-151502 Fantastic. That reminds of long road trips to Tampa from Detroit trying to calculate how many gallons of white and yellow paint were used on I-75. (Miami to Sault Ste. Marie) Fantastic. That reminds of long road trips to Tampa from Detroit trying to calculate how many gallons of white and yellow paint were used on I-75. (Miami to Sault Ste. Marie)

]]> By: jwelch1523 http://militantplatypus.mps-games.com/blog/archives/4101/comment-page-1#comment-151440 jwelch1523 Wed, 27 Feb 2008 01:23:56 +0000 http://www.militantplatypus.com/blog/archives/4101#comment-151440 is that front and back of the page? is that front and back of the page?

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