Spare change
Oct. 27th, 2005 01:51 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
tsumikSo 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? =)
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? =)
