Hmm, since it's pi day, i'll bust out some (bad) math: taking the integral of the surface area of a penny out to the approximate 4" radius of the cylinder, and knowing the thickness of a cent is 0.061", gives INT pi * x^2 (0"->4"), bump the lower limit to .5" to account for inefficiency in circles surrounded by circles, gives definite integral -> INT (pi*r2^2) - (pi*r1^2)^2 * H/T = pi*18"/0.061" * (16 - 0.25) = 4647.54 so, my semi-educated guess will be 4648/prize A and I am certain I will be wrong because I only took one semester of calculus in college and it was at 8am (not a good combination) . edit: Oh and thanks for the contest ROCK!
Dammit! When I first saw the title, I thought this was going to be about music trivia. I don't want to play now.
6,422.... sounds egocentric to say "prize A" though.... man, that exact ammount is gonna be tough unless you give high/low for each day.....
Man oh man, some people are REALLY REALLY far off and some people are close. The guesses so far (was going to post this every 24 hours but I do see that it could be helpful every few pages as well thanks for the tip cpm) are: Kbabyjohnson01 – 2742 Bkozak33 – 932 Cazkaboom – 2672 KonKK – 7000 DaveyJones – 3452 Silentviolent – 2898 Gunnovice09 – 2747 Cpm9ball – 10,000 Jensenbay – 2012 Bonbonbelly – 3287 Kipling401 – 1777 Spirityoda – 5234 Ebunny – 17149 Arhertiger3 – 4857 The Beatles – 1711 KoinJester – 7373 Kickindirt – 11100 silverevliS – 6685 heuvy31 – 3600 swerths – 3047 ddoomm1 – 3030 miedbe7 – 4648 mammoth29 – 5543 jello – 4444 rickmp – 8476 ArthurK11 – 4754 Gedon Althor – 6422 xGAJx – 6250 tylercw7 – 3111 Rassi – 4875 Dbcoinman – 6495 Lord Geoff – 7499