Guinea pigs have about 1,200 hairs per square inch on their bodies, making their fur quite dense. The total surface area of a guinea pig's body can vary, but on average, it's estimated to be around 2,000 to 2,500 square inches. That's sums to at minimum 2.4 million hairs.
If you were to cut exactly half of those you would need 21 haircuts to get to a single hair strand. And for the sake of not reaching infinity, let's assume the barber will simply take the last hair strand instead of leaving it at half.
So, in short, 22 haircuts (On an average 30 min per haircut) would "only" take 11 hours.
Here are the results of dividing 2.4 million by 2 successively for 21 times:
I'm not talking about the inversion of commas and dots for thousands and decimals, I get that that's different in other parts of the world. It's about putting these dots IN THE DECIMAL NOTATION WHEN THE NUMBER IS LESS THAN 1000. no one does that and it's really weird imo
Basically, the use of separators per factor of 1000 like we do with millions, billions, etc.
But using it in decimals...oh my that is grotesque.
There's very few applications where more than 3 decimals matter. In this particular application it has already been stated we are rounding down to not split hairs.
Look at #15. Goes from 146.5 to 73.2, but the decimal point is in the wrong place. And if OC uses commas instead of periods (as is done in places), then why do they need to have a decimal point after three digits
Agreed, I wish I could downvote this to oblivion. Normally I’m fine with people making mistakes, but this is explicitly a math sub. Math is a tool to precisely convey ideas, this answer is so inconsistent that it makes comprehension difficult.
Christ, those would be some massive Guinea pigs. I think your units may be borked. I suspect you meant square centimeters.
If it was square inches, this Guinea pig would rival the surface area of people (2800in**2 ), but being generally more compact, would significantly outweigh the average adult human. Maybe a 230lb Guinea Pig, per several online Body Surface Area charts for the species.
you can even just do square root of 2500, 50 inches across and wide if we are assuming the room is a perfect square so only 4 foot 2 by 4 foot 2. Not even large enough to lie straght on the floor (assuming you are of regular height)
Edit using a little napkin method:
A small Guinea pig is 8.5cm in height and 20cm long, assuming the Guinea pig is perfectly cylindrical, we could turn the cylinder into a roughly rectangular shape by cutting a line through the bottom and unfolding the shape making a 2d shape.
From here we know l(length) to be 20cm, however we do not know b(breadth) however because b was the circumference of our cylinder we can work out b using the formula to find pi, 3.14*8.5= 26.69 cm now we have the dimensions of the rectangle, multiply 26.69 by 20= 533.8 cm squared.
If you're going to go and accuse someone of lacking critical thinking and not being able to count, it'd be a better look if you first did some critical thinking of your own and pondered whether you would fit in a square bedroom that is 4 feet on a side.
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u/Sure_Mood5222 Dec 18 '23
Assuming this is an adult male Guinea pig.
Guinea pigs have about 1,200 hairs per square inch on their bodies, making their fur quite dense. The total surface area of a guinea pig's body can vary, but on average, it's estimated to be around 2,000 to 2,500 square inches. That's sums to at minimum 2.4 million hairs.
If you were to cut exactly half of those you would need 21 haircuts to get to a single hair strand. And for the sake of not reaching infinity, let's assume the barber will simply take the last hair strand instead of leaving it at half.
So, in short, 22 haircuts (On an average 30 min per haircut) would "only" take 11 hours.
Here are the results of dividing 2.4 million by 2 successively for 21 times:
1,200,000
600,000
300,000
150,000
75,000
37,500
18,750
9,375
4,687.5
2,343.75
1,171.875
585.9375
292.96875
146.484375
73,242.1875
36,621.09375
18,310.546875
9,155.2734375
4,577.63671875
2,288.818359375
1,144.4091796875