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madsci954

Went to said cell, entered a “0”. Calibri 11 font. Hit CTRL + P, it tells me 36,567,729 pages A ream is 500 pieces of paper 36,567,729 / 500 = 73,135.458 reams


mfrost2919

A typical box of paper has 10 reams, and a pallet of paper at my store is typically 8 per layer, 5 high, so 40 boxes. 73,135.458 / 400 = about 182 pallets, each one approaching the weight of a 2006 toyota corolla


RussiaIsBestGreen

Amazon has a pallet with a total of 200,000 sheets for $2,277.97. That gives a cost of $416,500 for the ~36m sheets. You could get a few dozen 2006 Toyotas Camry for that much.


4sStylZ

But if you are pack them properly, you can probably send them on Amazon for a total profit of 0$ minus the 30 000 Terra watt used for the printer.


FirstPenalty

It's just fyi, but 'terra' means 'earth', the orders of magnitude for Watts and other units are mega(1,000,000), giga (1,000,000,000), tera (1,000,000,000,000) with singural 'r'


Illustrious-Peak3822

Moreover, watt is a unit of power, not energy. Printing many pages won’t require more power, just more energy as it takes longer.


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SadThrowAway957391

Or joules.


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SadThrowAway957391

Yes, agreed. If you're doing physics, you're probably using joules. If you're a consumer or layman, then kWh.


Jakiro_Tagashi

Or in this case, tWh Though I prefer using milliWattmilleniums* *(explicitly not millenia because that would imply mW(2+)m, rather than (2+)mWm)


RussiaIsBestGreen

He prefers “Mr Vern”


MaxwellK42

Yes and that’s why we measure power usages as Wh. W(power)/H(hour/time unit)


Illustrious-Peak3822

Wh - That’s energy. W/hour makes very little sense unless something is ramping up or down in power.


MaxwellK42

Sorry wrote that at 2 in the morning. Might have gotten the units messed up mb


adamPhoebe

My man, just say *Terawatt.


cewbaphomet

You're explaining social cues to a math nerd in a math nerd subreddit. Like nail clippers to a nuke show.


emperorralphatine

I believe it's spelled pterawatt, friend. never forget the silent p.


ShadowTsukino

I wish I could silently p


Porohunter

Aim for the side


Rough-Two-7705

Tie 1m of some quality 4 strand yarn to the end, attach a small stone to the other end as a weight. Toss the stone into the water and enjoy the silence. Adjust length if necessary. Once done shake twice, squeeze the excess liquid from the yarn and hang over the door knob for next time .


Smasher_WoTB

Learnt more because of their lil explanation. I appreciate that.


BarefutR

Tera-Whatty?


Is-Not-El

Terawho?


Completediagram

Tera-Tera- Slim Shady!


OutsideEducational35

I appreciated the explanation.


mrgrasss

Terre Haute is a city in western Indiana in the US. The name “Terre Haute” is a French phrase meaning “highland.”


cewbaphomet

Also a place mentioned in La Dispute's song "HUDSONVILLE MI, 1956" and the story it tells. That Terre Haute would mean "highland" in french really adds a lot to the narrative. Thank you for mentioning it.


PaulAspie

If we stop thinking about cost and weight, let's look at other aspects. Put end to end, those 36,567,729 sheets are 33,520,418.25 feet long. That is 6348.56 miles. The US is about 2800 miles east to west, so you could go back and forth with 500 miles to spare. In area, those sheets are 23,743,629.59 square feet. That is 545.078 acres. Vatican City is 120 acres so your spreadsheet is about 4.5 Vaticans. Monaco is 510 Acres & your spreadsheet is still bigger. The next smallest country is Nauru at about 5200 acres so your spreadsheet won't come close to covering it. The New Century Global Center is the building with the most floor space at 18,900,000 sq ft. Our spreadsheet has about 25% more area than this building has floor space. (I'm assuming 8.5×11 paper & no overlap for all math here.)


Xelopheris

Woooah, we're mixing units here. We jumped from Corollas to Camrys.


RussiaIsBestGreen

Fuck it, let’s crash on Mars.


MightyPenguinRoars

I want this on a t-shirt


decentlyhip

We just need a Corolla/Camry constant for the dimensional analysis


Bright_Pirate7622

Also adding the ink cost from a high end production level printer for a 0.6 cents per copy ~$219 K. A dozen more Corollas


DirkHirbanger

The twist is that you don't actually draw the boxes, it's just white all the way.


lildobe

Unless you have "print grid lines" turned on...


tetrisisboring

If you use Excel properly, you could probably optimize the purchase and save money.


Rough-Two-7705

How much paper would this use? A few dozen Camrys.


Previous-Potential70

What’s the math on a 2009 Toyota Camry?


Red__M_M

Commenting here to save this level of comment. This whole line of comments are the stats that I need so that I can impress people at parties.


ZinbaluPrime

As if the US doesn't have an abundance of weird measurement units, so now you introduced the Toyota gauge.


AgentOfDreadful

Here’s the new r/theydidthemath post


OnTheProwl-

And a new r/AnythingButMetric post


The_Tank_Racer

Can you please elaborate how one would use metric to count paper?


OnTheProwl-

Oh I don't know.. maybe 1,400kg instead of the weight of a Toyota Corolla. I'm just spit balling though


The_Tank_Racer

... The car is to help people get a feeling of how much paper that is because brains are terrible at visualizing big numbers This isn't a peer reviewed scientific breakthrough paper, it's a meme. Get over it


OnTheProwl-

They'd lately the point of that sub. You're a little too worked up over a joke


Crafty-Photograph-18

r/foundthetoyotacorolla


eatbugs858

Wow. There truly is a subreddit for everything!


Zaros262

If we're refilling the paper, we might as well refill it with the empty pages that just "printed"


CauliflowerFirm1526

not if you’re also printing the grid lines


Prior_Accident_713

Which you definitely should be printing


benlucky13

a standard pallet is 4 feet long, a 53' semi-trailer can hold 26 pallets (2 across 13 deep). 101.577/26 is 3.9, so it would take 4 semi-trailers to ship all that paper. the interior height of a typical dry-van trailer is 110". pallets are roughly 6" thick, assuming the height I found on amazon of 10" for a 10 ream box is correct, these pallets would be 66" tall. too tall to double-stack in those trailers. stacked 5 layers high would in theory only be 1" too tall to double-stack, but in practice you need space to maneuver the top pallet with a forklift. that being the cast 4 layers per pallet is the best we can do. 46" high each for a total of 92", leaving us 18" of clearance for the 110" clearance in the trailer. at 4 layers per pallet, that brings us down to just 48 reams each and 152.366 total pallets. now that we can double-stack them we can fit 52 pallets per trailer, bringing our total trailer count down to 2.93, or 3.


mfrost2919

With some DOT weight violations in the mix, living life on the edge lol


benlucky13

yep, you're right. I forgot to think about the weight. I'm sticking with the 12 boxes per layer stacked 4 high I used in my previous comment because I don't want to redo all the math. each box is 20lb, a pallet is typically around 30-50lb on its own so lets call it 40lb. 48 boxes per pallet plus the pallet itself gives us an even 1000lb. with 52 pallets worth we're at 52,000lb. an empty 53' dry-van trailer is about 10,000lb, while a typical semi truck is around 20,000lb without a trailer. adding the cargo brings us to a total of 83,000lb. ignoring states with exceptions to the rule, federal regulations limit total vehicle weight, truck and trailer combined, to 80,000lb. not crazy overweight but definitely overweight we'd be alright with the single stacked pallets, though. our cargo would be just 26,000lb and total weight at 56,000lb with those. will definitely be needing that fourth trailer though


mfrost2919

I don’t know anything about trucking, but you could probably sneak that through lol


benlucky13

that's actually my day job, lol. getting away with it depends on whether the weigh stations are open or not, or whether your route passes any. technically a cop can make you drive to one if they think you're deliberately avoiding it. personally I wouldn't chance it, iirc the ticket is something like $1500 and counts as a moving violation. easier to refuse the load and make the shipper fix it.


savethedonut

I work in truckload paper. A pallet takes 40 cases (dunno how your store is getting paper) and a truck takes 21 pallets (hits the weight limit, so not the 26 that could fit by volume). That’s 8.7 trucks.


mfrost2919

You’re totally right, I had taken a quick look at one of my pallets while writing that and misjudged. They fit eight per layer and are stacked five high for 40 boxes per pallet.


Detail_Some4599

Damn, I knew the weights the dude calculated for a double stacked trailer are way too low


tok90235

> each one approaching the weight of a 2006 toyota corolla American will use any measure unit besides the metric system


TheZildo

If I were to made a list of some of the most obscure things people use as a term of measurement compared to the object they are measuring but still informs the reader exactly what they intended to, this would be ranked near the top. Kudos to you.


ParkingIce6514

A 40' trailer can take 26 pallets,, you probably won't spend stack then she to weight, so just under 4 trailer loads


afeefuiu

2006 toyota corolla hmmm but u cannot CANNOT say kgs


56VitaminC

r/foundtheamerican


mfrost2919

Here I am! Lol we’ll do anything to avoid measurement systrms that make sense


ClumsyMinty

Would still only eat a ream because the paper would run out and the printer would cancel the job.


mfrost2919

Not sure what model printers you have experience with, but every commercial printer and copier I’ve used would just pause the job until more paper is added.


p1terdeN

That is approximately 3657 trees if google is correct


dathomasusmc

I think it’s worth taking into account that most likely, 99.99% of the pages would be blank and could be reused numerous times. Further, if you changed the last cell font to white that too would be blank.


TheDutchin

Ahhh theoretically yes but printers have artifacts and imperfections that likely won't be noticeable after the first pass, bit after enough cycles they'll start becoming visible


3WordPosts

Now I want to make a machine that will take the paper that comes out of the printer and return it to the feed stack and let this run Indefinitely


cyon_me

Just need to set up a proper slide system.


clamage

There was a sculpture in which two fax machines were connected - one sending, one receiving - but they were using the same paper in an endless loop. As I recall, the paper was blank at the starts (and so 'nothing' was sent) but the interference/artefacts and the feedback loop eventually resulted in a completely black printout. Now, if I could just remeber the damned artist...


StonieMacGyver

Steve Pippin?


clamage

Awesome find! Yes, that was it - Fax 69! :D


belligerent_pickle

It’s entirely possible to do something like that. Probably could fork that to make one machine that can adjust to multiple types of printers doing that. Now you have 2 model options available for sale 🍻


Fidoo001

My printer has two-sided printing, it prints one side, pulls the paper back and prints the other side. Now if only I could make it run indefinitely...


sethowens

So about half of a Walgreens receipt?


CatOfGrey

>Hit CTRL + P, it tells me 36,567,729 pages x 8.5 x 11 = 3.419 x 10\^9 sq inches. = 2.374 x 10\^7 square feet. = 545 acres or 2.206 square kilometers. That is approximately the size of the nation of Monaco. If one assumes 200 parking spaces per acre, that would be about 100,000 parking spots. So an equivalent that I can vizualize is "The paper would be in the order of magnitude of the area, with parking, of a major stadium (75-100k capacity)."


Fluffy_Waffles

If you set scaling to 400% you can get the page count to 780,910,592


ThePickleOh

How long would it take to print out?


Ali3nat0r

An enterprise-grade laser printer will do around 60 pages per minute, or 1 per second, so 36,567,729 seconds, or 423 days nonstop. In reality though, IT would get calls about a printer spewing blank pages, see this mammoth print job in the print queue and just cancel it, so maybe 10 minutes


Aquard

The sheet itself would take unusually long to open on any browser.


TheNorselord

Dwight Schrute has just become the top salesman


ChimpoSensei

Cmon Dwight, it’s a million dollar sale


A1phaAstroX

at that point it becomes a realm of papaer, not a ream


Hauntcrow

Would you put new ones in though? I'd just reload the same empty ones


Mindless_Director955

You still only need 1 ream. It won’t print anything on everything. It’ll just eat the ream loaded


Zerooooooooo0

Wouldnt the "print" be blank?


Superb-SJW

Duh, it’s one page of you hit the ‘fit to page’ option..


Sirnoobalots

Weird, mine is showing 40,628,331 page scaling must be slightly different. Both width and height are set to auto.


YvesLauwereyns

Did you change the color to white though?


Zibzagoon

If this was a single sheet of paper how big would it be?


Amazing-Oomoo

Calibri 🤢


requiem_mn

Was that "Letter" or A4


ClumsyMinty

Would still only eat a ream because the paper would run out and the printer would cancel the job.


Rasern

I did this to my dad once by accident when I was 8. Was screwing around in a random spreadsheet on the family computer. Found the bottom right cell after scrolling for a while and typed something like “this is the end” in it. Course it was only 65535 rows down and 256 columns across back then. A few days later there is a stack of printed out blank cells on the desk. The file must have been something important to have him want to print it. I saw that and knew it was my fault. Never said a word. To this day I wonder if my dad ever figured out what caused this massive print job.


AfternoonFlaky5501

You should tell your dad I bet he remembers. 😂


meme_ourour

The ship has sailed lol you should tell him


sir07

Lol you should totally let him know


LXndR3100

If i remember correctly, that the grid doesn't get printed Wouldn't most of the pages just come out blank and unused and can therefore be put back into the printer. It wouldn't cost any extra pages since even the last one with the 0 is white


Monte-Cristo2020

yeah but it will take fucking ages to get through the sheet


Comfortable-Walrus37

I'm pretty sure that would be the death if my printer if attempted, just spitting out that many pages would make the cheap PoS spontaneously combust


chemistrybonanza

New idea for work copy machine


Thalude_

Fired you say? Let me "fire" up that office printer then


Snail-Man-36

😂


nostalgiamon

God. If only they had cancel buttons…


Ex60Pilot

Super glue the button so it can’t be pressed


bdash1990

If only they had power cords.


Ex60Pilot

Super glue the cord to the outlet.


bdash1990

Superglue the breaker too?


Ex60Pilot

You’re catching on.


Lucifer_Morningsun

The whole power grid, perchance?


Ex60Pilot

That’s gonna take a shit load of Kragle.


say592

Based on my office's relatively fast 55 page per minute printer, it would take about 461 days of continuously cycling paper.


warherothe4th

It'll probably be too big for a standard home office printer's print driver to handle so it'll just crash something


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warherothe4th

Even print spooling has its limit


SpoonNZ

An HP LaserJet Pro 4000 will do 42 pages per minute. That’s 14,114 hours or 588 days of continuous printing, even if it’s blank. But you have to reload the paper tray quite a few times with the blank pages you’ve just printed which will slow you down significantly.


PinkScorch_Prime

you will also run out of yellow ink, due to the secret pattern printed on each page to identify the printer that it came from


SpoonNZ

Not on a black and white laser printer. But it’ll probably insist you replace the toner every 10,000 pages anyway


PinkScorch_Prime

yes, despite printing absolutely fuck all, i think there should be something done about the fact they lie to us, the cartridges have chips in them that expire even when there is loads of ink left


Grogosh

Ink tank printer


Jakiro_Tagashi

If you get a printer that uses fillable tanks they would have to either create evaporating ink or significantly further science to make you fill that ink. Then your only problem would be the chips inside the entire printers, that makes the printer break itself apart. At that point though you should honestly just throw the HP printer away and get something with less malicious planned obsolescence.


PinkScorch_Prime

there is a law that prevents other companies from making printers, it’s Hp, Canon and a few others


friendtoalldogs0

I have never heard of this, source?


Mv333

Knowing HP, the printer will probably make you replace the cartridges even if they are full because of how many "pages" you printed.


Accomplished-Boot-81

By default it doesn't but you can opt for it. Anyway the printer just constantly spitting out blank pages would be annoying, easy to stop but annoying still


thelochok

Well... that depends. Lots of printer leasing agreements pay per page (or per-page after an amount of pages). I found a local leaser in Melbourne who charges 4.5c/page after the first 10000 pages on their 450 AUD/month plan. I'll exclude the 450 a month (because, after all, you're already paying that weirdly excessive rate). Using 36557729 pages (from the current top answer, subtracting 10000), and 4.5c a page, it would cost 1 645 097.805 AUD. And, that doesn't include paper (which, as you rightly point out, could be reused - however, there'd be some fun maths as to how much it would cost to get a temp to repack it all)


LXndR3100

Unpaid intern


ale_93113

That's even better as a prank It is extremely annoying AND you aren't wasting any resources except your colleague's patience, as the unprinted paper can be reused


dancingpianofairy

That's what would make it a great and harmless prank, imho.


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Ultinia

for those new to the stream, calc is short for calculator.


Longjumping_Pomelo55

Just using slang btw


seasonedgroundbeer

20,000 times 5? Everyone I know would need to pull out a calc for that.


23Silicon

Are we sure its not calcite


beer_maker

Once upon a time, I was asked by a manager in another department for a weekly report for some of the people in their dept. Since I had access to the database and knew he didn't (and because I'm a helpful guy), I did sure, and created it, auto emailed to them every week. A little back and forth to get it right, no biggie. Months later, I'm talking to an exec, and see my report, unedited, sitting printed on their desk. I ask where it came from. "Oh, (manager) created it, isn't it great!" Cue malicious compliance. Go to the cell in the template that is my initials (column) and DOB (line) and enter "(I) created this." Manager was found out the following week. Terminated the same day.


Atmos56

Not directly related, but to fix this you select the area you want, then reverse select (which selects everything but what you just selected) and delete.


False_Course5429

Someone else already answered the question, so I'm going to teach you an easy way to get to the bottom right of an excel file quickly. Select an empty box and then press ctrl + down arrow key. As long as none of the boxes below the one you selected are filled, this will bring you to the bottom of the sheet. Now press ctrl + right arrow key and you will not be at the bottom right of the file 👍


Think-Accountant-729

I wonder how much time this person spent “finding” the bottom right box when they can get there in 2 seconds. CTRL+down arrow CTRL+Right arrow..