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Bananas
A dollar bill is approximately 0.876 bananas long, and 0.372 bananas wide, and has a surface area of about 0.326 square bananas.
So, $95 is about 30.96 square bananas. Might as well round up to 31 square bananas.
Feel free to check the math yourself:
Edit: In terms of banana market value, that is always fluctuating, but if a banana is duct taped to a wall, $95 is still not going to get you even one banana.
What are we describing when saying a square banana?
In good faith I understand this as: the square of it's length.
But I prefer to interpret it as, a banana squashed until it is 1atom thin and shaped in a square (which to my imagination, is an enormous square)
Yes, I'm going by the square of its length. Though I like your way of thinking 🍌
Does the banana for scale have a source for its measurement? I can see 1 banana is 17.8cm.
Presumably that's an average?
It's the ISO banana, that's kept in a freezer in Switzerland and only taken out once every year to adjust other bananas.
Yes, I assume that's the average value they chose. Since they made the calculator, I consider that the go-to standard measurement.
On a side note, I did some additional research last night, and the average banana weighs between 100 and 120 grams, so 110 grams sounds good enough to me.
It's one square banana Michael, what could it measure? 10 dollar bills?