Unless She Calculated It On The Spot Too - Blog Posts

jane-of-almost-all-trades

7 months ago

the only reason I remember the formula for the volume of a cone is that Susan Sto Helit used it to count baby teeth in a big pile in Terry Pratchett’s Hogfather

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pratchett discworld gnu terry pratchett hogfather susan sto helit still don’t understand how she did that measured it with her eyes did the math & then divided it by the volume of one tooth how did she know the volume of one baby tooth unless she calculated it on the spot too

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