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What is the Area of a full stop?
on: April 08, 2008, 14:03:59 PM
Bit random really. Im just going through revision for my Coastal and Marine Biology and Management unit. The total surface area of fully protected marine areas (from fishing, everything) is less than 0.0001% of the worlds oceans.

Im just trying to work out if I can use "If this page was the worlds oceans, the full stop at the end of this sentence would be the equivalent area that is fully protected."

So I need to know the surface area of a full stop (hard to measure) and the surface area of an A4 page. Im guessing 0.0001% of an A4 page might be a little bigger...

...if A4 is 210x297mm I figure the area is 623.7 cm2? (maths was never my forte) Working out 0.0001% being around .06mm2?

In which case if an A4 page was the oceans, a full stop would represent an area larger than the fully protected oceans? Im guessing full stops are around the 0.5-1mm mark?
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Reply #1 on: April 08, 2008, 17:02:49 PM
Depends if you are using a fine nib biro, or a marker pen :D

/waits for the maths people. . .
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Reply #2 on: April 08, 2008, 17:46:37 PM
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...if A4 is 210x297mm I figure the area is 623.7 cm2? (maths was never my forte) Working out 0.0001% being around .06mm2?
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google says 0.0625 m2
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Reply #3 on: April 08, 2008, 17:52:34 PM
would be something like:

A4 = 210mm * 297mm = 62370mm^2 (is that right? seems stupid?)

if you pens point is say 0.5mm thick(diametre), you would need to find the area of the fullstop = pi*0.25^2 = 0.1963mm^2 (that doesnt sound right either?)

so if ive worked it out right (probably not) 0.1963mm^2 of 62370mm^2 is

0.00031473464806798144%

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Reply #4 on: April 08, 2008, 19:41:15 PM
That seems right so a .5 mm dot would be to big a .25 dot
would be about right or  ~ .00008 which is near less than .0001 % :D
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Reply #5 on: April 08, 2008, 19:46:07 PM
Excellent :D

I wonder if Id get bonus marks for writing half a page of mathmathics or whether I should just leave it at the example of full stop being "larger than"

Probably shouldnt even put that in as its a bit unprofessional really. Will just have to wait and see what questions come up in the exam and how the essay goes!

Thanks guys!
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Reply #6 on: April 08, 2008, 23:54:00 PM
If this page was all the worlds oceans then the total area of protected space would be larger than the end of a ball hair?

(Sorry, Engineering taught me there were only 3 measurements, Mile, inch and ball hair.)
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Reply #7 on: April 09, 2008, 09:12:31 AM
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If this page was all the worlds oceans then the total area of protected space would be larger than the end of a ball hair?

(Sorry, Engineering taught me there were only 3 measurements, Mile, inch and ball hair.)


you went to the wrong uni,. at mine it was legend that there were just four types of measurement.

the lecturers used imperials. Students used Metric. And the guys in the Machine shop used Rack of Eye to measure stuff and Cock Hairs to describe how close to accurate their Rack of Eye system was.

When I got into engineering proper, I found an additional measurement that was used only regionally, the "F$ck it, its only a gnats pube out" system which was sponsored by Drapers heavy hammer division.

Matt
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