Cubic Angels
Jim Jett (jett@lanl.gov)
Fri, 31 May 1996 09:03:38 -0600
I sent this to Bruce but there seems to be more universal interest than I
thought there would be. It is interesting to see how the estimates
converge from different points of view.
"Here is one answer from the proverbial back of the envelope. Assuming a
70 Kg person (not too bad a guess), whose density is 1 gm/cc (also a good
number), and that an average cell is a 10 micron cube (that one can be
argued about or refined but you do not have to remember the value of Pi or
the formula for the volume of a sphere) the number of cells in a person is
7x10e13."
Jim
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