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August 03, 2005
fibonacci sez...
I've been away at Leonardo Pisano's lab, evaluating his latest data. Sparky is interested in setting up a manufacturing plant to make wire coat hangers here, so I asked the lab to help us with some figures on supply and demand. Leonardo set up a prototype of our manufacturing facilty and the indications are good. Two weeks of testing and I think Sparky is really on to something, I'm glad -- he's been pretty down since the big rupture, when the pressure got too high in the tanks of his imagination refinery... we had a devil of a time cleaning that up, you can imagine. Anyway, Sparky suggested we try something a little more practical...
Let me describe the manufacturing process. We make a chamber, about two feet deep, six feet wide, and eight feet high, with a door on one side and single light on the ceiling. down the center of the chamber, about five and a half feet off the floor we suspend a single wooden dowel, about an inch and a half in diameter, horizontally lengthwise across from wall to wall.
Then, to seed the process we place a single wire hanger on the rod, somewhere in the middle, turn off the light and close the door. Each day we open the door to check on the progress, recorded and depicted in the following chart. (each '|' '\' or '/' represents one coat hanger)
mon: |
tue: |
wed: ||
thu: |||
fri: ||\\|
sat: ||||\\\|
sun: ||||\\\| |||//
mon: ||||\\\| |||//||||\\\|
tue: ||||\||||\\\| |||//\\| |||//||||\\\|
wed: ||||\||||\\\| |||//\\| |||//| ||||\\\| |||//||||\\\||||\\\|
thu: ||||\|||||||\||||\\\| |||//\\| |||//||||\\\||\\\| |||//\\| |||//| ||||\\\| |||//||||\\\||||\\\|
fri: ||||\||||\\\| |||//\\| |||//| ||||\\\| |||//||||\\\||||\\\| ||||\|||||||\||||\\\| |||//\\| |||//||||\\\||\\\| |||//\\| |||//| ||||\\\| |||//||||\\\||||\\\|
sat:||||\|||||||\||||\\\| |||//\\| |||//||||\\\||\\\| |||//\\| |||//| ||||\\\| |||//||||\\\||||\\\|||||\||||\\\| |||//\\| |||//| ||||\\\| |||//||||\\\||||\\\| ||||\|||||||\||||\\\| |||//\\| |||//||||\\\||\\\| |||//\\| |||//| ||||\\\| |||//||||\\\||||\\\|
sun:||||\||||\\\| |||//\\| |||//| ||||\\\| |||//||||\\\||||\\\| ||||\|||||||\||||\\\| |||//\\| |||//||||\\\||\\\| |||//\\| |||//| ||||\\\| |||//||||\\\||||\\\|||||\|||||||\||||\\\| |||//\\| |||//||||\\\||\\\| |||//\\| |||//| ||||\\\| |||//||||\\\||||\\\|||||\||||\\\| |||//\\| |||//| ||||\\\| |||//||||\\\||||\\\| ||||\|||||||\||||\\\| |||//\\| |||//||||\\\||\\\| |||//\\| |||//| ||||\\\| |||//||||\\\||||\\\|
[experiment terminated for safety reasons]
The people at the lab say that using this technique, we can make over three hundred thousand coat hangers a month. Sparky will be so glad.
posted by matthew at 04:41 PM
How come soem of 'em lean like that?
posted by: Care on August 3, 2005 06:48 PM
I keep looking for the secret message encoded in the lines...must be in there somewhere...
posted by: Cynde on August 3, 2005 07:08 PM
you'd better get on to the marketing department: everyone knows hangers just multiply by themselves. NOBODY ever buys them.
BTW. if i were you I'd check your manufacturing chamber. it seems a bit slow. I have several closets in my house that i'm pretty sure have greater output than your chamber.
posted by: derek on August 4, 2005 02:24 AM
Me too Cynde, now, I DO take back all those pesky cheapass no good hangers you get from the dry cleaners EVERY week! (about 5 a week) It is TRUE though, that there seem to be even more in J's closet than before...
posted by: Care on August 4, 2005 07:20 AM
I think I remember something from my physics class about the "conservation of hangers." For every one you create, one must be destroyed (usually along with a sock or necktie).
posted by: Jack on August 4, 2005 11:07 PM
I think I see a spaceship.
posted by: Di on August 5, 2005 12:06 AM