I'm sat sitting drinking tea waiting for the gas man.
However given that the circumference is 2 Pi r (I think) you would have to work backwards and add one to the radius, then find the new circumference?
Originally Posted by El Loro:
Originally Posted by Sprout:
The Earth was formed approximately 4.54 billion years ago and is the only known planet to support life. 
- Circumference at Equator: 40,030.2 km
In Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream, one of the characters says that "I'll put a girdle round about the earth in forty minutes.".
If the girdle is placed so that it is 1 metre above the ground, how much longer does the girdle have to be compared to the circumference of 40,030.2 km?
6.28 metres?
Originally Posted by Garage Joe:
However given that the circumference is 2 Pi r (I think) you would have to work backwards and add one to the radius, then find the new circumference?
Or, just add 2â
Originally Posted by El Loro:
Blizz'ard, you are right, the girdle would be 2 x pi = 6.28318... metres longer. The radius of the earth makes no difference to the result. The increase in the length of the girdle is the same whether the girdle was done around a golf ball or the sun.
Just to make it clear, I did not know the answer through having to increase my girdle size every year. 
You couldn't put a girdle round the sun in 40 minutes mind. One wouldn't last a nanosecond. A golf ball sounds a more sensible option.
ION the combi boiler lives! Good for another year. Fire and cooker to go.
Originally Posted by Garage Joe:
You couldn't put a girdle round the sun in 40 minutes mind. One wouldn't last a nanosecond. A golf ball sounds a more sensible option. ION the combi boiler lives! Good for another year. Fire and cooker to go.
Pi is a transcendental number. The length of a girdle round the sun would be a incandescental transcendental number 
Good news on your combi boiler 
Originally Posted by El Loro:
Blizz'ard, you are right, the girdle would be 2 x pi = 6.28318... metres longer. The radius of the earth makes no difference to the result. The increase in the length of the girdle is the same whether the girdle was done around a golf ball or the sun.
To be exact it would be 2 x Pi x (n) where (n) is the hight you have raised it above the surface.
It is only 2Pi in this PARTICULAR case because the girdle is raised by 1 meter.
Right y'all ruining this thread !!!
Shakespeare was reported as being bald by the age of 22
David Dickinson spent 3 yrs in prison for fraud
The phrase "rule of thumb" is derived from an old English law which stated that you couldn't beat your wife with anything wider than your thumb.
Actor Tommy Lee Jones and Al Gore were freshman roommates at Harvard.
Ah knew that one. :smug :
"Smut" was the sooty dirt puffed from steam trains...
[from yesterday's Michael Portillo railway show].
Slag: is a by-product of the process of smelting ore.
Whore-house is . . . . never mind 
Smut was actually a bi-product of any carbon burning chimley. Ask your older relations.
There is no word for slag in the Tees Valley dialect.
Scut on the other hand is a word for a rabbits tail.
Originally Posted by Saint:
Actor Tommy Lee Jones and Al Gore were freshman roommates at Harvard.
Sadly I did know that.
Pogonophobia is the fear of beards.
Originally Posted by moonie:
"Dreamt" is the only English word that ends in the letters "mt."
I won a pub quiz with that little bit of knowledge once
Originally Posted by moonie:
There were only six toilets on the Titanic. In those days, most passengers and crew members still observed the age-old maritime tradition of going over the side 
Going for a number 2 must have been a dangerous business 
Originally Posted by Cinds:
Originally Posted by moonie:
There were only six toilets on the Titanic. In those days, most passengers and crew members still observed the age-old maritime tradition of going over the side
Going for a number 2 must have been a dangerous business
Just imagine if there was a dose of the "back door trotts" going about
Originally Posted by moonie:
"Dreamt" is the only English word that ends in the letters "mt."
Oh! I always thought it was dreampt for some reason and rooting around tinternet it seems it is dreamt 
Originally Posted by moonie:
Originally Posted by Cinds:
Originally Posted by moonie:
There were only six toilets on the Titanic. In those days, most passengers and crew members still observed the age-old maritime tradition of going over the side
Going for a number 2 must have been a dangerous business
Just imagine if there was a dose of the "back door trotts" going about
To be honest, the thought of dangling arse first over the side of a ship is enough to give you the 'dish otters'. (Dish otters is my new term for diarrhoea as that's what my iphone insisted I was trying to say the last time I tried to type it).
Originally Posted by Cinds:
To be honest, the thought of dangling arse first over the side of a ship is enough to give you the 'dish otters'. (Dish otters is my new term for diarrhoea as that's what my iphone insisted I was trying to say the last time I tried to type it).
I'd love to know what the full text said
Originally Posted by Cinds:
Originally Posted by moonie:
Originally Posted by Cinds:
Originally Posted by moonie:
There were only six toilets on the Titanic. In those days, most passengers and crew members still observed the age-old maritime tradition of going over the side
Going for a number 2 must have been a dangerous business
Just imagine if there was a dose of the "back door trotts" going about
To be honest, the thought of dangling arse first over the side of a ship is enough to give you the 'dish otters'. (Dish otters is my new term for diarrhoea as that's what my iphone insisted I was trying to say the last time I tried to type it).
Originally Posted by Cinds:
Originally Posted by moonie:
Originally Posted by Cinds:
Originally Posted by moonie:
There were only six toilets on the Titanic. In those days, most passengers and crew members still observed the age-old maritime tradition of going over the side
Going for a number 2 must have been a dangerous business
Just imagine if there was a dose of the "back door trotts" going about
To be honest, the thought of dangling arse first over the side of a ship is enough to give you the 'dish otters'. (Dish otters is my new term for diarrhoea as that's what my iphone insisted I was trying to say the last time I tried to type it).
J.K. Rowling has donated so much of her money to charity - she has given up her unique status as a billionaire in exchange for the one of millionaire
Good on her Mrs H
Sings, "I dreamt a dream of time gone byyyyyyyyy"
Nope - wrong