Paul Fuller wrote:
> Invisible wrote:
>>
>> ...so a 1.1 x 1.1 x 1.1 mm block of this stuff costs £664, eh? That's 
>> pretty freakin' expensive, right there!
>>
> 
> Not sure on your maths there.
> 
> A cube 1.1mm in a side has a volume of about 0.001331 cubic cm. A bit 
> over one thousandth of a cubic cm.
> 
> A cube 1.17cm (11.7mm) on a side would have a volume of approximately 
> 1.6 cubic cm.  And that is about right for an ounce of gold.

Oh, OK. I misread the unit on the printout. Well that's a rather larger 
lump of gold then. ;-)

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