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[–] prettybunnys@sh.itjust.works 3 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

Approximately 1/3 of a Rhode Island

[–] Wiz@midwest.social 3 points 2 months ago (2 children)
[–] credo@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

A banana is to a mile as a banana peel is to a square mile.

A banana peel is 181.48 sq cm or 7.007 × 10^-9^ sq miles, so…

(386.1 (sq miles)) / (7.00736808e-9 (sq miles)/(banana peel)) =

5.50991464 × 10^10^ banana peels.

So 55 billion, give or take.

[–] prettybunnys@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 months ago

Internet tells me a banana is about 200 square centimeters, which confused me so I had to convert that back into measurements I understand.

Google says 200 square centimeters is about 1 bananas worth.

So anyways ~200 billion bananas if my napkin math checks out.