Sand

[pjm007]

How many grains of sand are there on a beach ?

[Ethel]

How big is the beach?

[THECORBYLOON]

I counted 7,605,433,901,319 but then the effects of ma medication kicked in and the men in white coats said they were busy folk. The rest is a blur.............

[lady_p_gold]

Well I was counting away and then some guy in a baby walker came skipping along with a toothbrush ....

[ezapf]

I would say at least 100.

[jrtv]

Are you German and how big is your towel ?

[dzug]

Um.... none. It's a pebble beach.

[dot.hawkes]

On Long bay beach Antigua there are several hundred less this morning as i just unpacked and they are all over my bedroom carpet.

[Se7en]

12

[jno]

dot, please do a quick count and we'll do some maths to extrapolate a global figure.

[spainlads]

On all the world's beaches there are 7,500,000,000,000,000,000, or seven quintillion five quadrillion grains of sand.

http://www.miamisci.org/tripod/whysand.html

[dot.hawkes]

wish i'd seen spainlads answer b4 taking up jno's challenge! lol

[gammaray]

It will depend on whether the tides in or out!

[tropicalbob]

A few less than there was before I visited now there lodged in embarrassing parts of my body

[lizwizz]

Ask Mr Fussy

[lizwizz]

Perhaps its not Mr Fussy,but one of the other Mr Men who's already started counting

[jno]

so TCL wasn't far out, apart from missing out 6 noughts at the end when the men came for him.

[annierosie]

My hubby says there are more grains of sand on all the beaches in the world than there are stars in the sky, and he knows everything....or so he says!!