N Scale Math Help Needed

[GimpLizard]

Would that be an N scale sized beer?

By the Tank Train load.

[basementcalling]

"4,096,000 bottles of beer on the wall, 4,096,000 bottles of beer, take one down and pass it around..." 
 

Green or brown bottles? Can that many N scale sized bottles fit in the boxcar that started this car wreck?

[rogergperkins]

Yes, from a chemist  answer is 160 to the third power.
160 ³

[Roger Holmes]

OK, I was wrong not to cube the beer calculations.  I started this whole thread with the proposition that I am not good at MATH.

Did you know that 111,111,111 times 111,111,111 equals 12,345,678,987,654,321  ?

I don't have a calculator big enough to see if that's true but one of you string guys can prove it

[GimpLizard]

Hmmm. MS Excel comes up with 12345678987654300.00

Apparently Mr. Gates' WizChild is not so smart after all.

[DKS]

MS Calculator gives the answer 1.234567898765432e+16

[wcfn100]

The MS Scientific Calc will do it.

Jason

[GaryHinshaw]

                  111111111
               x 111111111
----------------------------
                  111111111
              +1111111110
            +11111111100
+ ...
+11111111100000000
-----------------------------
  12345678987654321

(just make sure the columns line up properly - smf won't quite do that...)

[peteski]

                  111111111
               x 111111111
----------------------------
                  111111111
              +1111111110
            +11111111100
+ ...
+11111111100000000
-----------------------------
  12345678987654321

(just make sure the columns line up properly - smf won't quite do that...)

Is this binary math? 

[nkalanaga]

No, if it was binary math the answer would also be 1s and 0s.  I can translate binary into decimal, but there's no way I'll do math in binary...

[rail and tie]

This is way to complicated.

Remember,

2+2=5 for large values of 2!

[nkalanaga]

Darryl:  I've had to prove that to several people.  Working with computers, it happens more than many people would think. 

For those who don't believe it, try 2.4 + 2.4 = 4.8  If that's printed as rounded integers, but calculated as floating-point decimals, one gets 2 + 2 = 5.

[x600]

Hi, I like Trains   

[Rossford Yard]

Reading without my glasses, I thought you wanted "Meth" help.  Have no idea whether it would be 160th or 1/25,600th as potent in N scale.......don't need to know, either!

[peteski]

Hi, I like Trains   

Yeah, this thread must, by now,  be getting very ripe for the dreaded thread move.