(This is just a quick story that I wanted to share, because I'm pretty proud!)
Someone challenged me to guess how much the coins in this change pot totalled to, then afterwards said more or less "Nah, I'm not counting it. Too much work."
I, knowing I wouldn't sleep unless I knew the answer, got obviously very upset by this. So I did it myself.
I am not good with math whatsoever and have never had to really count change, but I was desperate to know if I was AT LEAST close to the real answer.
"The plan":
I divided the counting into groups of 5 full coins, and kept the "non-singular" (not full coins, cents and quarters etc) into towers that ended when it reached a full coin, and I'd continuing doing that until it couldn't become a full coin anymore. (If you don't get it or find it confusing, maybe even overcomplicated from whatever obvious solution you'd probably use, this is because I'm autistic. And also bad at complicated math, but mostly autistic.)
To summerize it, I spent around 10 minutes(?) doing this, probably less. I'm not good at keeping track of time when very focused, so don't trust that number completely.
The total:
26 full coins and 65 cents.
My guess was "26 or 16 dollars".
So, basically, I'm gonna ride this out as my best mathematical achievement in the last few years, and am gonna completely ignore the cents and say I hit an absolute bullseye answer on what was more or less the "can you guess how many jellybeans are in this jar" challenge :]
Also please ignore the weird lighting on the above image, as I was counting the coins partially under the bed <3 No I don't say why, don't ask <3
