How many snowflakes are needed to build a regulation sized snowman?
A lot. Certainly more than the # of beers you can drink and the # of calories you can consume in one day, even for those w/ super high metabolism. Okay, now for a more serious & structured answer. Assuming that a regulation sized snowman is 5 ft, I would make the diameter of the head 1.5 ft and the 2 lower parts 1.75 ft. That comes to 7.38 cubic feet in volume (using the equation V= 4/3*pi*r^3) or 88.5 cubic inches. Now, a typical snow flake is .1 inches in diameter. That comes to a volume of .000523 cubic inches. So, doing the math, that would be 169,125 snow flakes if the snowflakes were laid out end to end. However, that does not include packing in, so if it was really tight packing, you would prob have 10-20 times that amount which would bring the figure to 1.7 million to 3.4 million. Hope that helps.
