[Faceman]

Hey guys! Great job. [img]graemlins/thumbsup.gif[/img]
I actually assumed you'd leave out the space-between-coins issue as we are looking for an approximation not an exact result (which we can't get anyway lacking the knowledge of the exact shape of our champagne bottle)

I used US coins in my example because I figured most of the members here would be from the US but what the heck. I'm from Euroland myself so the answers quite suit me.

It is with US coins the same as with EU coins (they are quite similar in weight and shape). The 10-cent (dime) is the correct answer.

calculations have been outlined quite fabulously in the above posts

disregarding the space-between issue it comes down to a price/volume question
which is easily calculated for the champagne by price/volume (duh!)
and not anymore difficult for the coins (where volume may be unknown) by
(diameter/2)^2*pi*thickness = volume
face value/volume

I refer to diameter/2 instead of radius (which would be the common term in the formula) and thickness instead of height in this calculation as these are the standard specifications by the Fed and the EZB.

[ 08-19-2003, 04:56 PM: Message edited by: Faceman ]