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Re:31,140 Pennies Used for a Kitchen Floor by stephencanon on Thursday August 30, 2012 @05:50PM (#4457057)
Did you take account of the fact that hexagonal circle packing is ~90% dense in calculating the cost per square foot?

Edit: doing the math myself, I get 295 pennies to the square foot (0.906*144/0.4417 = 295). Not sure how you got 998, unless you somehow digit-reversed 144.

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Re:31,140 Pennies Used for a Kitchen Floor by ChuckMcM on Thursday August 30, 2012 @06:14PM (#4457158)
Your right I screwed up the math in my head I was holding the .375 squared (about .141) and dividing 144 by that rather than the area. That makes the economics a lot better, as a straight up division its only on the order of $3.25 a square foot and certainly as durable as tile in that regard.
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