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Twice as long as it is from one end to the middle.
It's Friday
They did something like this on Radio 2 the other day. Their conclusion was that the OPTIMUM length of string is 6 feet.
Slightly longer than the average 5k time for a male runner and slightly shorter than the average 5k time for a female runner?
We need an expert in string theory.
Mean, medium or mode? I mean, technically, there is a definite answer out, since there is a finite number of pieces of string in the world. You'd need to do the measuring and calculating pretty quickly since new pieces are being made and cut all the time. Then again, if you want to start talking about degrees of accuracy you'll get into the difficult territory of fractal geometry. String theory indeed!
Gaaah! Median, not medium.
Having completed extensive research on this issue and I found it to be approximately the same length as an average flaccid adult penis, so about 10 inches I'd say
PMSL
They did something like this on Radio 2 the other day. Their conclusion was that the OPTIMUM length of string is 6 feet.
Why? What were they intending to do with it? And what was the optimum thickness?
It was a Simon Mayo "Homework Sucks" thing. I'm not sure the point of it, some kid emailed it in and thought they'd try and answer it.
Turns out 6 feet is short enough to not get too tangled and keep in your pocket, but long enough to be useful. They cited its usage by some emergency services as being able to tie things too it and lower it out of a first storey window for someone to receive.
Yep, Radio 2. The TV license in action...
Stupid edit button...
They did not discuss optimum thickness.
They did not discuss optimum thickness.
Damn! That sort of thing is important
Nick - I think I would concur on both points
I used this question in a lecture once on empiricism. The question does actually have an answer. There are a finite number of pieces of string in the world at any one point in time, and each has a length, so an average length of a piece of string does exist. Its just that we can't know it. An example of the limitations of empiricism.
Hallam... I'd like to believe that you could come up with an indisputable definition of what constitutes string, and what constitutes a discreet piece - obviously essential for your convoluted scenario to have credibility. If I look in my garden, there will be some gardener's string rotting in the ground. Does every fibre that has rotted off it count as a 'piece of string'? Every molecule?
Can I get my head around it? I'm a frayed knot.
It does beg the question of whether string degrades faster than it can be made - if not the amount must surely be variable.
Plus the fact that natural fibre degrades faster than synthetic...
I'm a frayed knot.
Boom boom!
15mm is almost certainly cassed as rope.
Perhaps it is defined on how it is distributed. You get balls of string, yet barrels or spindles of rope.
To further muddy the waters, when I was in my youth as a scout, we used Sisal. This has rope like qualities, yet came in a ball.
I'm getting myself all in a tangle.
And what about twine?
I bet you're all glad I asked this question aren't you?
Apparently, twine is made up of more than one string and usually from natural fibres.
Or so Google/Yahoo Answers reports...
Are we talking metric string or imperial string?
As I understand from my Grandad the old imperial string was much better and longer and came in 454 gramme balls
Colin - 4000 holes from Blackburn, Lancashire I believe?
Yes, it was Big Bad Bob. They had to count them all you know. Must have been a tedious day in their life.
No! I'm not buying it!
There is no way that the 4000 holes in Blackburn, Lancashire could possibly fill the Albert Hall. The holes in Blackburn, Lancashire were rather small, where as the Albert Hall is rather large. Just because they knew how many holes there were in Blackburn, Lancashire and how many holes it takes to fill the Albert Hall doesn't mean they are the same thing.