I'm retarded at math, help me

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doomdragon6

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Our convention is ordering 3,000 DVD cases to put our booklets in.

The shipper has told us that the 3,000 DVDs will take up 1.2 cubic meters. That sounds small, to me, 1.2 meters in all directions, from my understanding. So that's a little over 3 feet in every direction?

I put this into a converter and got 42.37 cubic feet, which would mean 42 feet in every direction, right?

I don't fully understand, and I'm having a damn hard time imagining how much space 3,000 14mm DVD cases will take up.

Is it the 42 feet in all directions? Because that's bigger than our goddamn apartment. But that also seems awful fucking big.

So I don't know, any help here? Yes, I am absolutely retarded at math and spacial imagination.
 
LordRendar

LordRendar

no.. if you had 42 feet in all directions it would be 42x42x42 (for each dimension) =74088 cubic feet.
[snip..im a math retard too.thats why i took political science when i was in college]
 
bhamv3

bhamv3

Firstly, 1.2 cubic meters doesn't mean 1.2 meters in all directions. It means 1.2 meters in one direction, and then 1 meter in the other two. So it'd have a length of 1.2 meters, a width of 1 meter, and a height of 1 meter.

If you wanted 1.2 cubic meters in a perfect cube, you'd have a cube of just over 1 meters on each side. Specifically, around 1.06. (since 1.06 * 1.06 * 1.06 = 1.2)

Similarly, 42.3 cubic feet doesn't mean 42.3 feet on each side. For 42.3 cubic feet, you could envision a box that's 42.3 feet long, 1 foot wide, and 1 foot tall. Or, if you want to envision it as a perfect cube, it would be a cube of around 3.48 feet on each side. This is because the cube root of 42.3 is around 3.48.
 
doomdragon6

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Thank you so much bhamv. Knowing that we'd have a box close to 4 feet wide on all sides is much better than my dumb ass thinking it could be 42 feet on all sides. Which would be ridiculous.
 
ElJuski

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I'm a retard at understanding why retard is such a hard concept to not use willy-nilly like a socially inept internet user.
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also, when has there ever been 42 ft box shipped to someone not used for transporting construction equipment or velociraptors?
 
netsirk

netsirk

The math works, too, if you consider the volume of each DVD case (assuming standard dimensions other than the stated 14mm, i.e. 135 mm x 190 mm x 14 mm) is 0.0003591 m^3*, and 0.0003591 m^3 x 3000 units = 1.1 m^3, approximately. The extra 0.1 m^3 must be for the packing slip :)

*in case that's hard to visualize, convert each to meters, a-like so: 0.135 m x 0.190 m x 0.014 m = 0.0003591 m^3

p.s. it would be really entertaining if they shipped it as one extremely long single stack; that box would be the normal length and width of a DVD case, but be 42 meters (138 feet) long!

</math teacher>
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Mathias

Mathias

netsirk said:
The math works, too, if you consider the volume of each DVD case (assuming standard dimensions other than the stated 14mm, i.e. 135 mm x 190 mm x 14 mm) is 0.0003591 m^3*, and 0.0003591 m^3 x 3000 units = 1.1 m^3, approximately. The extra 0.1 m^3 must be for the packing slip :)

*in case that's hard to visualize, convert each to meters, a-like so: 0.135 m x 0.190 m x 0.014 m = 0.0003591 m^3

p.s. it would be really entertaining if they shipped it as one extremely long single stack; that box would be the normal length and width of a DVD case, but be 42 meters (138 feet) long!

</math teacher>
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Bah, for some reason I missed that he was shipping 14 mm and used 15 mm instead. I rounded each side to the nearest box, and calculated about 2500 boxes fitting; not 3000. 14 mm works for 3000.
 
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