From: Ronald Raygun 
Subject: Re: newbie question buying a house for cash 2 people
Newsgroups: uk.finance
Date: Fri, 01 Jun 2007 11:18:55 GMT

Arthur wrote:

> "Alan Frame"  wrote in message
> news:1hywg63.1kx6v7kqebdxiN%alan.frame@acm.org...
>>
>> Imagine the size of the Mars Bar you could buy for 10,000 GBP cash...
> 
> The chocolate covering would be 20 metres thick by my calculations.

You must have forgotten to take the cube root.

If a normal Mars bar costs 33p, a £10k one would have to be 30k
times as big (in terms of weight and volume) as a normal one
assuming a fixed price/weight ratio (although a substantial bulk
discount might be in order).

Hence its linear dimensions would be only 31 times that of a
normal one, and if the covering is around 3mm thick, this would
become about 10cm or 4 inches.

Bit of a challenge to gnaw through, but quite doable, I'd say.