Comments on: A complicated proposal

By: Wedding Cake WIN « 360

Wedding Cake WIN « 360 — Wed, 19 Sep 2012 17:40:19 +0000

[...] this isn’t even our first math wedding post (see this mathy proposal) although it’s the very first one involving [...]

By: Ξ

Fri, 21 Nov 2008 17:01:51 +0000

There might be 100 vases. I was trying to estimate groups of ten, and then grouping that into ten tens. Another possibility is that there are 1000 stems, each with several daisies on them.

And yet another possibility is that 1000 daisies sounds like a lot but really isn’t, and the point of this episode was that Max proposed, not that Max can’t count, so the producer just ordered a LOT of flowers and didn’t worry about the mathematical accuracy.

By: TwoPi

TwoPi — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 16:57:35 +0000

Oops, make that 450 sq ft (silly me).

By: TwoPi

TwoPi — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 16:55:58 +0000

Could there be 1000 vases?

If each vas is 8″ in diameter, then 1000 of them would take up about 670 square feet of surface area (treating them as having square bases, even though I’m well aware that cylinders could be packed more efficiently etc….)

Is 670 sq ft of surface area in the right ballpark?

It is hard for me to gauge distances in that film clip.

By: Batman

Batman — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 16:11:27 +0000

I wonder if there’s a formal definition of “daisy” that mentions a certain number of flowers that could constitute a single daisy. I agree that there appear to be many more than 1000 individual flowers in the scene, but maybe there are 1000 plants…or something.