[Leica] Re: How many fairies are dancing on the head of a pin?

["Henning J. Wulff" <henningw@archiphoto.com>]

At 5:57 PM -0800 10/30/00, Jim Brick wrote:
>At 04:22 PM 10/30/00 -0800, Mark Rabiner wrote:
>>
>>What does that expression mean anyhew?
>>"How many fairies are dancing on the head of a pin?" he asked Cottingley
>>How did that expression come about?
>>somebody was arguing with somebody.
>>Was in Sir Arthur Canon Doyle? Harry Houdini? Albert Einstein? Sir Eastman
>Kodak?
>>
>>Mark Rabiner Esq.
>
>But the real answer is...
>
>10,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000
>
>as calculated by Dr. Phil Schewe

Unfortunately, to continue this slightly O-T thread, Dr. Schewe dealt 
in only one dimenion. We must assume his pin-tip has a second 
dimension, so you would have to square that number and multiply by 
pi/4. Also, you might be able to pile them 10 million or so deep....

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