Pondering.

[dave_t_lurker]

Of all the created objects (cars, toasters, cups, resistors, Sinclair spectrums, wheels, etc) which one or which class of them is most numerous or has had the most individual elements created since the human race started making things

Comments

[dakegra]

the biro.

[dave_t_lurker]

Nah. Biros are made from made parts, you need a stock of those parts to make a run of biros, so at some point there must be more biro-bits than completed biros.

[dakegra]

bricks? nuts/bolts? nails?

[st_lemur]

Firewood logs?

[dave_t_lurker]

That is quite possible.

[geekette8]

Something like screws, nails, nuts, bolts, rivets....

[miss_next]

Yes - I was just going to say tacks. Any DIYer has got thousands of them. Or pins, maybe.

[geekette8]

Transistors?

[shortcipher]

Counting individual transistors rather than chips feels like cheating somehow. Couldn't one just as well count individual squares on graph paper?

[gerald_duck]

Graph paper squares sound reasonable to me… but there are only 15,000 to a sheet, 1.5 million to a pad. What do you reckon the annual worldwide sales of graph paper pads are? :-p

[shortcipher]

Indeed; it was an illustrative suggestion only. :-)

[artela]

Thread.

[agoodwinsmith]

Yeah, I vote: thread.