Been awhile since we've posted, so here's something I wrote to Dan awhile back to fill the void:
I saw something strange on my toilet paper package. It said at the bottom of the package, "24 Rolls/Rollos - 1002.0 SQ FT/PIES²"
The first thing I thought was, Why did they have to put .0 at the end of the number? Couldn't they just leave it as 1002 sq ft? Then I saw that they squared "pies." That got me extremely confused! It's spelled PI -- I can't believe they got that wrong. And why are they using PI in a toilet paper roll formula anyway? Perhaps they measure the size of a roll of toilet paper by taking PI and squaring it... but then there is no associated measurement from the actual roll (like radius to figure out the area of a 2-dimensional circle). The actual equation they intended may have been 1002sq ft divided by PI squared. But still -- PIES? Maybe they meant "Plys" as in "Double Ply?" Man, what a really funny typo!
I found out later that PIES means "Feet" in Spanish... Oh, well.
