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[โ€“] sharkfucker420@lemmy.ml 16 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (2 children)

Not hard to do if you weigh groups of the rice and take an average weight/grain then divide the total weight by that. Bro forgot to add his uncertainty tho ๐Ÿ’€

The total weight would decrease as some of the water evaporated but you might be able to account for that

[โ€“] Perfide@reddthat.com 40 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Bro forgot to add his uncertainty tho

HIS uncertainty? Your method results in uncertainty. This guy counted each piece individually, as one should.

[โ€“] sharkfucker420@lemmy.ml 6 points 8 months ago

Sometimes we make sacrifices for the sake of efficiency

With weighing you have a confidence interval, when counting each grain of rice you know.