How Many Holes Does It Take To Fill the Albert Hall?

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  1. Joe Koz

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    John, good seeing you again!

    I miss you posting!

    Ahhhh...the good old days!!! :thumbsup:
     
  2. Gary

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    I heard that Larry the Chef won't be appearing this year....

    So no Naugas!

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    I don't know how I missed your return but this is certainly as fine a spot as any for post number seven thousand: Welcome Back John!

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  4. blind_melon1

    blind_melon1 An erotic adventurer of the most deranged kind....

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    They should have counted them before Paul had them fixed @ track 5.

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  5. Raunchnroll

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    I don't know, but it'd be more fun to get to that part where

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  6. Johnny66

    Johnny66 Laird of Boleskine

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    I always thought "Four thousand holes in Blackburn, Lancashire/And though the holes were rather small" was a dirty sexual pun - delivered in a negative, antagonistic sense.
     
  7. Nuno

    Nuno New Member

    Hello,
    I see this is a freaking old post, I hope you guys are still alive.
    I like your maths, John. However, I have 3 contributions:
    1. I would do the maths in area rather than volume. That is because the news in the Daily Mail made the extraplation into cities, which are pieces of territory, and therefore areas.In this case, assuming the Royal Albert Hall is approximately 10,050 m^2, then it takes approximately 110 holes "to fill it".
    2. If we use this figure to calculate the average size of such holes, we end up with 182 m^2 per hole... This are still not "rather small" holes. And I'll tell you why: This is not the average size of a hole, but instead, it's the average area per hold. So, "though the holes are rather small", not all the area needs to be occupied by holes. It means you will find, in average, one hole per each piece of 182 m^2 within the Royal Albert Hall!! See? I'm proud about this one :D :p
    3. Following your line of thoughts, with these new figures, nowadays the Albert Hall would take 200/4000 times the number of holes, that is, 5.5 holes (instead of the old 110)! That's a big improvement! Under the light of the idea stated in 2), it doesn't imply that the holes grew bigger, but instead, they appear more rarely ;) In this case, nowadays we'd have an average of 1 hole per each 3,640 m^2 (instead of the old 182) of ground within the Albert Hall.

    Aftermaths:
    • 1960's: "It takes 110 holes to fill the Albert Hall"
    • today: "It takes 5.5 holes to fill the Albert Hall"

    :)

    btw, I bet you wouldn't imagine you would make someone enjoy your post 7.5 years later ;) Enjoyed the british humour, thanks!

    note: sorry for using meters instead of feet... I just can't... :p
     
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  8. jkauff

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    John being John, I always assumed he meant "****holes."
     
  9. fuse999

    fuse999 Forum Resident

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    That's some mighty fancy math, but the correct answer may be one. sinkhole.jpg
     
  10. gregorya

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    That would be a "hall in one"... ;)
     
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