What If?: Ink Molecules

http://what-if.xkcd.com/106/

created by Smashman2004 on 24/07/2014 at 01:53 UTC

178 upvotes, 12 top-level comments (showing 12)

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Comment by bbqturtle at 24/07/2014 at 01:54 UTC

48 upvotes, 1 direct replies

I wish he posted the more accurate estimation, you know, for science.

Comment by Tbone139 at 24/07/2014 at 04:03 UTC

17 upvotes, 2 direct replies

or have you heard?

6.02 times ten to the...

Twenty-third~*

Avogadro has haunted me since 8th grade. Molecules of water in a 10x10x10cm volume

Comment by [deleted] at 24/07/2014 at 08:09 UTC

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Comment by Michael_A_D at 24/07/2014 at 14:02 UTC

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Here comes "Self-descriptive shirt #2": "It took about 3,325,535,346,241,563,149 molecules of ink to print the text on this shirt."

Comment by Hamburgex at 24/07/2014 at 13:27 UTC

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He has a psychological obsession with Fermi.

Comment by [deleted] at 24/07/2014 at 03:08 UTC

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Comment by Aegeus at 24/07/2014 at 12:52 UTC

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The start of the 18-digit number is 867-5309. Clever.

Not sure if the rest of it is a reference as well.

Comment by atimholt at 24/07/2014 at 03:21 UTC

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I feel like I’ve seen this question somewhere before (with someone else’s answer?).

Comment by arahman81 at 24/07/2014 at 21:59 UTC

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$30 could probably get you a few kilograms of fresh whole squid, and—if you picked the right squid—a total of five or six cartridges worth of ink.

Don't give Chizuru any ideas

Comment by bbb4246 at 24/07/2014 at 12:19 UTC

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For the "161 pixels," is he saying there are 161 pixels in the number 161 in that font?

Comment by Crysalim at 24/07/2014 at 09:58 UTC

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I'm just glad he pointed out how disgusbomtulamated (I can't think of another word to illustrate the extreme, unnecessary, ridiculous, and insulting bullshit of overpriced printer ink, so I made one up) ink is. Randall teaches, yo.

Comment by whoopdedo at 25/07/2014 at 08:25 UTC

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Squid ink is edible. Not sure if you want to be ingesting the stuff HP sells.