http://www.rough-equivalents.com/2008/04/pecks-of-pickled-peppers/ Making Numbers Fun Fri, 14 May 2010 03:32:23 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 http://www.rough-equivalents.com/2008/04/pecks-of-pickled-peppers/comment-page-1/#comment-203 Greg Bulmash Tue, 11 May 2010 04:01:34 +0000 http://www.rough-equivalents.com/?p=28#comment-203 Pick doesn't just mean to pull off a plant. It means to select. Stock pickers go find things on the shelves of a warehouse. So he could have picked them from a pickle pepper vendor's pickled pepper barrell. Pick doesn't just mean to pull off a plant. It means to select. Stock pickers go find things on the shelves of a warehouse. So he could have picked them from a pickle pepper vendor's pickled pepper barrell.

]]> http://www.rough-equivalents.com/2008/04/pecks-of-pickled-peppers/comment-page-1/#comment-202 adam Mon, 10 May 2010 01:11:05 +0000 http://www.rough-equivalents.com/?p=28#comment-202 excelent work! However, did you stop to think that this is assuming that peter piper had a magical pickled pepper plant? you had to pick (buy) your peppers before you could pickle them. The real question is not how many pickled peppers is peter piper packin, but what isthe probability of a previously pickled pepper plant. :) excelent work! However, did you stop to think that this is assuming that peter piper had a magical pickled pepper plant? you had to pick (buy) your peppers before you could pickle them. The real question is not how many pickled peppers is peter piper packin, but what isthe probability of a previously pickled pepper plant.

]]> http://www.rough-equivalents.com/2008/04/pecks-of-pickled-peppers/comment-page-1/#comment-97 Rough Equivalents » Blog Archive » Alas, Poor Yorick… Mon, 02 Jun 2008 08:11:05 +0000 http://www.rough-equivalents.com/?p=28#comment-97 [...] human skull, 1.4 liters, 47.34 fuid ounces, 15.89% of a peck. Based on my experiments to determine how many pickled peppers are in a peck, the human skull would fit around 78 pickled [...] [...] human skull, 1.4 liters, 47.34 fuid ounces, 15.89% of a peck. Based on my experiments to determine how many pickled peppers are in a peck, the human skull would fit around 78 pickled [...]

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