At one point during a discussion of PaB cups and the techniques used to fill them someone asked, "Why bother?" This question has sat in the back of my brain for a while and only really resurfaced when I made a blitz on my local PaB wall. I was in a hurry and didn't have time to stack and sort so I just grabbed handfuls of whatever caught my eye.
Let's see how this compares to neatly sorting and stacking in terms of piece count.
That's what it looked like before I started taking pieces out.
Parts 1. 60 pieces.
Parts 2. 77 pieces.
Parts 3. 72 pieces.
Parts 4. 25 pieces.
Parts 5. 84 pieces.
Parts 6. 350 pieces.
Okay. That's a total of 668 pieces at $8.74, which gives us a $0.01 Price per Piece. This time I had more pieces. But it's invalidated by the fact that this time it was a majority of plates and tiles -- smaller pieces taking up less volume -- as opposed to a majority of bricks with tile filler.
To prove another point, I repacked the entire thing with the items restacked that could be. As you can see there's plenty of empty space left in the cup.
I guess I'll have to try and re-create the first cup at some point and do a comparison that way.
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