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Calculate the odds that a slice of heavily buttered toast will fall on it's buttered side when dropped. State your assumptions.

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Originally posted by AThousandYoung
Calculate the odds that a slice of heavily buttered toast will fall on it's buttered side when dropped. State your assumptions.
there's no apostrophe in a possessive 'its'.

EDIT: oh, all right - from what height is it dropped? what gravitational force applies? what is the co-efficient of friction of the media through which it is dropped? was it dropped deliberately, or by accident?

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Originally posted by AThousandYoung
Calculate the odds that a slice of heavily buttered toast will fall on it's buttered side when dropped. State your assumptions.
Odds change according to cost and cleanability of carpet.

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Originally posted by AThousandYoung
Calculate the odds that a slice of heavily buttered toast will fall on it's buttered side when dropped. State your assumptions.
The BBC did a programme on this sort of thing, years ago. I think it was Clive Anderson that hosted it.

The buttered toast falls, roughly 50/50 on it's buttered side.

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Originally posted by AThousandYoung
Calculate the odds that a slice of heavily buttered toast will fall on it's buttered side when dropped. State your assumptions.
That depends on which side of the cat it is stapled to.

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Originally posted by AThousandYoung
Calculate the odds that a slice of heavily buttered toast will fall on it's buttered side when dropped. State your assumptions.
I would guess it would have to be 50/50

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Originally posted by AThousandYoung
Calculate the odds that a slice of heavily buttered toast will fall on it's buttered side when dropped. State your assumptions.
Most often. My assumption is it's on a plate of sorts. As it gets to the edge, one edge of the toast dips.

A height of about 3 or 4 feet up, with a gentle roll gives the toast about 85% chance of rotating 180 to land on the floor.

If you don't want to have your toast land on the floor butter side down, butter the bottom.

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It depends on the height of the work surface. The higher the work surface, the more likely the toast will turn back onto it's unbuttered side. The toast will normally fall buttered side down.

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Butter on toast?
Brilliant! 😞

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Originally posted by AThousandYoung
Calculate the odds that a slice of heavily buttered toast will fall on it's buttered side when dropped. State your assumptions.
It was in an episode of "Mythbusters" on Discovery Channel. I do not remember the result.

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