Yes, by God. That's exactly what I'm suggesting!!!!!

Just you wait until your 7 yr old does the dirty deed.

And you can't have 0.9 of a bean in my world. Oh, no.

The bean tins I have just emptied across the floor in this hotel room held 405, 421, 410, 417 (and a squished bit), 435 and 433 beans respectively. You'll be using metrical beans so they won't fit the tin properly, nonetheless, based on this analysis, I reckon 425.

A squished bit!!!??? You mean beans violate quantum theory???

I , of course , as a very cleverperson have spent the last few hours embroiled in 3rd order differential equations combined with advance Fourier analysis to come up with an answer accurate to 27 decimal places ( quantized states only , tosh!)

However it only works for beans in a vacuum , sorry !

They were on the floor, so it's string theory

I am saddened to inform BE that the standard UK tin of Heinz Baked Beans (415g) contain a mere 51% beans (presumably by mass). Thus a UK tin contains only ~212g of beans, assuming a similar state of affairs in Canada and also assuming the average bean weighs ~1g. Then there would be 212 beans.

This seems a little bit of an underestimate though, and my slices of toast coated in hundreds of the little things seem to attest to a slightly higher number.

I have a tin of Schrodinger's Beans, which has 450 beans in it, and no beans in it.

I don't know how much toast to make.

Does a partial bean count as a "bean" in this context, or are we to total up all the half beans and give a grand total as it were (which is going to make totaling them up harder for the bean counter!)

Enquiring minds need to know.

As usual google has the answer... 375 beany bites, or if you prefer method B 355 total beans, give or take.

Or 557.

4 slices. You can always eat it without the beans

Damn, I was just going to make a Schrodingers cat funny and Jings beat me to it.

There are of course an infinite number of beans in an infinite number of dimensions. Pray that your can doesn't contain an inter-dimensional tear otherwise there is going to be one helluva mess when you open it.

On another note. Baked Beans win my prize of the most revolting food in the world. You couldn't pay me to eat them.

305 beans.

A more pertinent question would be, "How many farts will his tin of beans produce?"

My answer is 12.7*






*.3 = solids

me counts da # ov Bs onda labbel - it tell me dat is but 31 beenies in da tinny.

Unfortunately just a small update on this important matter (as I had to spend the last couple of hours on the phone with "customer service" making a trivial modification to an internet purchase I made this evening "We can't do anything about it as part of the order has already shipped"..."I just want to swap one of the items in the order which hasn't yet been shipped for something which is the same price and more correctly matches with the rest of the order". "Sorry sir, we seem to be talking in circles...When you receive it, phone the manufacturer" ). I finally got to talk to a manager, I think he fixed the issue by cancelling the original order and doing up another one. No doubt I'll receive both orders and be charged double.

Back on topic. I received an email today, a wordy hypothesis on the subject, however I'm currently unsure how to summarise it other than to say its something about "protein content" and "the proposed number of whole beans is 467". I'll post it up in more detail later.

Dear daughter is primed and ready to count the beans tomorrow

I'm really interested to see if someone can apply pure math to come up with a closer answer than 4009 though. If anything, to make us math-heads look a little more respectable on here...


I suppose it's up to Novo, as he posed the question. I think if there are, for example, two half-beans, then they should be totalled up as one bean and added to the count. However, I'd also suggest that the word 'bean' should probably be interpreted as the "solid state of bean", rather than any other state. So any bean mush or bits that no longer resemble that usually recognisable "bean shape" should be ignored?

You know, while deciphering this, I realised that as soon as we open the tin and empty the beans out to count them.... there will be zero beans in the tin