Lottery Exercise 1

14 million lottery numbers

each number printed onto a single sheet

assuming 100 sheets = 1 inch think

Stacked, would be 11666 feet tall (3.56 km)

The theoretical exhibition would have been at the New York Guggenheim, where the spiral contained a single line of stacked sheets spiraling up the building. The first sheet faced out, reading 01-02-03-04-05-06. The last sheet, the sheet where the public can start removing, reads 44-45-46-47-48-49. The visitors may take away a single sheet, or as many sheets as they want.

This would consume 28000 packs of paper (500 sheets per pack).

Text © Sandy Smith 2006