Sharpening: When I think about it, my mind is slightly blown

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Lagrangian

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(1) I am 1.7 meters tall
(2) A precision knife edge is 0.4 microns

When I am sharpening, I am making a precision part which is 4,250,000x smaller than myself!

How often do you cross 6.5 orders of magnitude? :)

Sincerely,
--Lagrangian

P.S. If you are an economist and/or astronomer, that's no fair; you're disqualified from answering! :)
P.P.S. Think about this the other way: 4,250,000x bigger than me is 7,225 kilometers!
 
Hahaha ! Very well said!

All the problems in sharpening, especially freehand is due to refinement at micron level by someone 1.5m or more tall, using gross motor inaccurate movement :D

Am engineer by training, so I'm disqualified right away ... Lol
 
Drop the knife into the Grand Canyon...a couple thousand meters of free fall ought to score you another few orders;)
 
@Never Dull:
Awww crap, I forgot to rule out politics! :D I'll pretend this goes under "economists" who are disqualified. :rolleyes: (4 trillion / 535 = 7,476,635,514x :eek: That's 10 orders of magnitude, dude! :) )

@unit:
Let's see... Smallest common knife I know is a Spydercp Ladybug. Edge length is just under 2 inches (about 5cm). Grand Canyon? About 1800 meters. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grand_Canyon

Let's do some math!
1800 meters * (100 cm/m) / 5cm = 36,000x

That gets you 4.5 orders of magnitude! :thumbup: :)
 
Sounds like a conversation my friends and I had in grad school while smoking some weed... For medical reasons :)

Are you a math major? 'Lagrangian' is a sure give away..
 
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