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Comment author: MBlume 01 October 2012 07:56:20PM *  15 points [-]

I can pick up a mole (animal) and throw it. Anything I can throw weighs one pound. One pound is one kilogram.

--Randal Munroe, A Mole of Moles

Comment author: [deleted] 01 October 2012 08:15:19PM 23 points [-]

… if anyone asks, I did not tell you it was ok to do math like this.

Comment author: MixedNuts 01 October 2012 08:24:54PM 6 points [-]

It's called "show, don't tell".

Comment author: ChrisHibbert 06 October 2012 06:06:16PM 1 point [-]

Did Munroe add that? It's incorrect. There are lots of situations in which it's reasonable to calculate while throwing away an occasional factor of 2.2.

Comment author: [deleted] 06 October 2012 06:43:30PM *  0 points [-]

Yeah, but the way he shows that the Avogadro number is approximately one trillion trillion is still hilarious (though it does work).

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