And in "absurdly precise numbers suspiciously close to 100,000 / 6" news... twitter.com/qikipedia/stat…
In reply to @christianp
So, apart from my perennial gripes about @qikipedia's continuing citation-free problems with numeracy, this begs a question: what does a cheeseburger weigh six times as much as, or have six times as many calories as?
In reply to @christianp
@Wolfram_Alpha says a cheeseburger weighs 200g or 7.1oz, which isn't six times anything, but it give 548 calories, which is close to 540 or 600. So a blue whale needs 9 or 10 million calories a day? Wikipedia says it's 1.5 million.
In reply to @christianp
However, Wikipedia says a blue whale *sometimes* eats up to 3,600kg of krill in one day. 16667*200 is about 3,333kg, so we might be going by weight. But that's not every day!
In reply to @christianp
Assuming krill have roughly the same caloric content as cheeseburgers (@Wolfram_Alpha doesn't know it), it looks like whales can eat 6 or 7 times their daily energy needs in one day. Wikipedia says they eat seasonally.
So that fact looks...
fishy.
😎
In reply to @christianp
Actually, I'm not done with this yet: is 16,667 cheeseburgers more or less than I'd expect a blue whale to eat? Me to @itabn_andrew, which tells me 3,333kg is a bit more than an adult giraffe and a bit less than a shipping container. Or, excitingly, about 2500 human brains
In reply to @christianp
And lots more comparisons besides: isthatabignumber.com/itabn/compare?…
It also tells me that 1 million calories is about 500 times a woman's recommended daily intake. So 10 million is enough for 5,000 women. That does seem like a lot!