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Tesseracts are fun (its the 4d spatial analog of a cube, time is not the 4th dimension, etc...) It's 3D Mobius strips/vases/whatever that give me headaches. But question, dont Greg and Liz already OWN the (arguably) best blu-ray player there will ever be: the firmware update-able PS3 from the ORIGIN...

Ok fine then use a 3L Beaker properly calibrated: http://www.capitolscientific.com/estylez_item.aspx?item=B3190-3L 8) Check the image more carefully. It only has demarcations of several hundred milliliters. You need 0.5 ml precision, which just isn't happening easily. No no, I think you misundersto...

(I also doubt that a 3L mason jar is 3L to 0.5 ml precision, either). Assuming that the mason jar is ~4 inches across, you've got to stop within a fraction of a millimeter, and the jar has to be virtually completely flat. Ok fine then use a 3L Beaker properly calibrated: http://www.capitolscientifi...

Miami (FL) - never heard it

Greg Dean wrote:

Mr. Xero wrote:what the hell is Greg talking about in today's strip

That' kind of the reaction I was expecting from a number of people.

And you got it (and I'm 27)! At least this one doesn't seem to have a screwed up origin like 'Ring-around-the-rosy'

But it's also much, much harder to measure volume than weight - especially with liquids. For a 4 cm jar opening, to measure volume accurately to 1 penny, you'd have to measure distances of 0.3 mm, the jar would have to be flat to 0.1 degrees, and you'd have to somehow know the meniscus behavior as ...

Hi, everyone :) In your latest comic series about coin counting, I'm surprised nobody has suggested using a water displacement method to count coins. It gets around the 'variable weights issue' given the fact that coins have been standard in size for longer than any have been in circulation. Anyways...