tsumik

So a coworker has a pint glass of spare change she's collected from lunch and various other locations. And I have a quirk where even if I have change in my pocket when purchasing things I opt to break a dollar bill instead so I have more change. At the end of the night all my collected change goes into a large glass root beer jug I have. And of course I never have a clue how much is in there. So I decided to sit down and figure out just how much change on average one should have per cubic inch of container.

One would need to figure out what the average mix of change would be. Here's where I turn to last years annual report for the US Mint on their coinage production last year.
Pennies: 6,836,000,000
Nickels: 1,445,040,000
Dimes: 2,487,500,000
Quarters: 2,401,600,000
So the ratio breaks out to be 6,836,000,000/1,445,040,000/2,487,500,000/2,401,600,000 or roughly 473/100/172/166. That equals $68.43.

Now I would just need to take those numbers of coins and see how much space they take up. There should be enough coins to average out the difference in how the coins settle into a container. Finally I would divide $68.43 by the space in cubic inches to get the average amount of change worth per cubic inch.

Anyone get me the space 473 pennies, 100 nickels, 172 dimes, and 166 quarters works out to be? =)

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c10sneak.livejournal.com

Production isn't the same as what is in current distribution or even current use.

I was very entertained by this post. Are you at work? lol

tsumik.livejournal.com

Yeah I figured that. I really would have wanted to know what the change break out or usage that a grocery store goes through as I would figure that would be a pretty good measure of average coin distribution. But then again neighborhood affluency would skew that number also. So this isn't exact science by any means as there is so many factors of error :)

And of course where else would I be doing such nonsense things? :)