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Toilet Paper Math
- Charmin Ultra: There are 264 sheets per roll. Each sheet is 4½ inches by 4
inches. Multiplying 264 sheets times 4 inches gives 1,056 inches of toilet paper per roll.
- A normal sheet of paper has dimensions 8½ inches by 11 inches. With one inches margins,
that gives 58½ square inches of writings surface per page.
- No top/bottom margin is necessary per square of toilet paper, and a ½ inch margin on each
side (4 x 3½) would be adequate, giving a writing surface of 14 square inches per square.
- One page of writing on a regular sheet of paper would take 4.18 squares of toilet paper.
(58½/14 = 4.1785...)
- Thus, one roll of 264 sheets of toilet paper would have enough surface area to print the
equivalent of 63 pages of text on regular paper.
- As a frame of reference that every can relate to, but few would actually request, the Bible,
having approximately 50,000 square inches of text, would print on 3,600 squares, or 13½
rolls. With a 10 or 11 point font, the entire Bible could be printed on a 12-pack.
You could read the Bible once through every 12 pack.
Page Created by SDA
May 14, 2002
Page last updated May 22, 2002
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