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anomalousdecay

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Use Heisenberg's uncertainty principle and the Schrodinger equation to find out the probability of the jelly beans not being inside the box, and already in someone else's stomach :haha:
 

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They mentioned these guessing competitions in a documentary I saw a couple of years ago. I can't remember the overall theme of the documentary.
They tried the strategy of having the last guess and simply averaging all the guesses others made before them.
The accuracy was surprising.
 

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Guys I divide the volume of the toolbox by the volume of 1 jellybean and I get a massive answer in the thousands, I even minus 10% due to air gaps its still in the thousands...
 

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Guys I divide the volume of the toolbox by the volume of 1 jellybean and I get a massive answer in the thousands, I even minus 10% due to air gaps its still in the thousands...
Instead of playing with the dimensions of ONE jellybean, why don't you play with the dimensions of a packet?
Buy a packet, use the dimensions to calculate how many packets would fit in the box, then count the number of jellybeans in the packet.
That way, the air gap is not guesswork.
 

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Instead of playing with the dimensions of ONE jellybean, why don't you play with the dimensions of a packet?
Buy a packet, use the dimensions to calculate how many packets would fit in the box, then count the number of jellybeans in the packet.
That way, the air gap is not guesswork.
Lol oright
 

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Instead of playing with the dimensions of ONE jellybean, why don't you play with the dimensions of a packet?
Buy a packet, use the dimensions to calculate how many packets would fit in the box, then count the number of jellybeans in the packet.
That way, the air gap is not guesswork.
But then there's usually more air in the packets due to commercial cheapness (cough chip packets cough) so there'd be an overestimation of air

Therefore an underestimation of jellybeans
 

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Ok guys so there was 800 something jelly beans in the toolbox.

They said a number between 800-815 iirc.
 

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