Giant's Eggs (for Propp)
How many eggs should a giant 4× taller eat? Linear and square scaling leave him starving; the joke is that volume (and appetite) scales with the cube.
Drawn for an essay by James Propp.
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Cartoon by Ben Orlin, Math with Bad Drawings. https://cartoons.mathwithbaddrawings.com/2018-01-31-giant-s-eggs/ (CC BY-NC 4.0)Transcript
"For a normal person, 2 eggs. And for a giant four times the height..."
"...8 eggs?" Giant: "Are you trying to starve me? Or just hinting I should diet?"
"...16 eggs?" Giant: "Just FYI, my stomach growls register on the Richter scale."
"...72 eggs?" Giant: "I guess this will tide me over until the meal.... there will be a meal, right?"