21 Sep 1999
We like to keep track of how the boundaries of knowledge are being pushed back, and we are delighted to tell you that Dr Malcolm Cornwall of the University of Sussex has now calculated the number of stones on the beach between Brighton and Hove.
Now he's going to count the gallons of water in the English Channel, and the grains of sand needed to fill Brighton Pavilion (though we can't help feeling filling it with stones from Brighton beach would be easier).
This should come in handy should your employer ever ask you to fill Brighton Pavilion with sand, because you'd feel really stupid if you were a couple of grains short.
After all, where would you get sand on the south coast?
By the way, it's 100 billion stones on the beach, but we reckon he made it up.
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