Yes! He's a bar steward.

I'd forgotten this thread.

Has any sad bar steward actually counted the beans in the photos yet?

too many memories of counting stars in globular clusters. ( and don't ask Ben about trying to locate Kuiper belt objects!!!)

I said bar steward, not star nerd.

Anyway the beans form a two dimensional lattice, so it's quite a lot easier than a globular clustery thingy.

I think that's the nicest thing I've been called all day !!!

I'm pleased.

OK, I counted them, there are 668.

Thenkyew.

So you're absolutely sure there's not 4009 of them there?

As I've explained quite clearly, my original estimate was based on a mistaken notion that prolate spheroids would close pack in the same member to ensemble volume ratio as spheres. After correcting this schoolboy error (by remembering a paper I'd read in my yoof), I was able to estimate the number of beans on your family's dinner plates with unerring, almost frightening, accuracy.

Such is the scientific method. Do try to keep up.

Did you really count them?

I think this hypothesis needs peer reviewing !

Much as I agree with you, Its unfortunate that around here at least (as Im sure Novo would tell you himself) he is peerless

Unfortunately for me, and predictably, I fell into Novo's trap last night and annotated one of the photos. The beans have been counted and the photo shows how they've been counted so a peer review can take place.

I'll post the photo up tonight (it's not on this PC). The count for "plate #1" + the half-bean left in the bean tin was 150.5, I think.

I'll get the remaining photos annotated sometime over the weekend... I'm sure you're all "loving" the suspense...

that don't mean there's nobody better tho, just nobody the same. Unfortunate??

So what you are saying is "He's unique, just like everyone else is."

we're all special in our own little ways.