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Benoit_Mandelbrot
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tootsy roll licks
« on: Mar 29th, 2004, 9:30am » |
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For real, on average, how many licks does it take to get to the center of a tootsy roll pop?
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Re: tootsy roll licks
« Reply #1 on: Mar 29th, 2004, 9:37am » |
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This is nuts. Next time when I buy a roll pop, I'll count & I'll tell you.
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Re: tootsy roll licks
« Reply #2 on: Mar 29th, 2004, 9:43am » |
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tootsie pop is 1 inch across=2.5mm.
v=4/3 pi r cubed.
volume of tootsiepop is 4/3*3.14*.75^3=1.77cm^3=1.77ml
one lick deposits about .05ml saliva.
at body tempature about as much sugar will dissolve as there is water. the ratio is possibly better for saliva.
So let's guess each lick disssolves .05ml of the sucker.
1.77/.05=35 licks.
Obviously that's way too low.
Somebody go back and get better numbers; the process in and of itself should work
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Re: tootsy roll licks
« Reply #3 on: Mar 29th, 2004, 10:46am » |
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It only takes one. Just like it only takes one brick to complete a brick house. 
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Re: tootsy roll licks
« Reply #4 on: Mar 29th, 2004, 10:31pm » |
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I think that the accepted answer is three. As defined by the wise old owl. "one, two, thrrrreeee crunk"
However, I think that 0.05ml is too much spit for one lick. Plus, isn't there something about turning a solid into a liquid that would require some changes to your formula? I do not know what they are, but it sounds possible. For instance, what is the pressure of one lick, size of tongue, ambient humidity.
Of course Cathos has the other answer 
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Re: tootsy roll licks
« Reply #5 on: Mar 29th, 2004, 11:18pm » |
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Never having had one, and assuming that its the same thing as an ordinary lollipop, then the centre is the very centre of the (usually) paper stick.... Can't say I've ever licked it that far....
Or if it is a plastic tube, they're usually hollow... so it won't take any.
And Zoel, licking dissolves the sucker? Hoo, glad I haven't had one now....
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Re: tootsy roll licks
« Reply #6 on: Mar 29th, 2004, 11:33pm » |
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In the center is a chocolate/caramel kind of blob of stuff. So, you do not need to find the mythical center, just get to the edge of the blob. 
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Re: tootsy roll licks
« Reply #7 on: Mar 30th, 2004, 9:44am » |
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Yes, I think that the center would in this case be considered the chocolate blob thingie...
The formula should work:
(volume of sugar/pop)/(volume of sugar removed/lick)=lick/pop
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Re: tootsy roll licks
« Reply #8 on: Mar 30th, 2004, 12:50pm » |
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Of course, the "blob" is not perfectly spherical, nor is the sucker. I seem to remember a ridge of candy that runs along the side of the sucker. So it would depend on the specifics of an individual sucker and how the blob is aligned within it. We should be able to get a range though.
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Re: tootsy roll licks
« Reply #9 on: Mar 30th, 2004, 2:41pm » |
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All this is making my mouth water 
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im glad that no one actually licked a lolipop to answer this. although the math problems were amusing, they were annoying. why take the fun out of lollipops? their jsut so damn yummy go lick one yourself and find out. i came up with 374 licks and 8 ,2 second sucks. if anyone comes up with another answer. then youre wrong. or maybe you "deposit more saliva with eahchl lick" than i do. go get some lollipops. yayayayayaya i love you
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Re: tootsy roll licks
« Reply #11 on: Apr 21st, 2004, 9:31am » |
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Wow. That was more licks than I thought. I actually haven't had a tootsie roll in over a year. I wasn't sure anyone was actually going to take the time to do something like this.
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