Whoops, supernumerary. But, have you seen Total Recall? =)
[Dr. Evil]Checking…checking… one, two… and three. Okay…[/Dr. Evil]
To put it another way, the mean number of balls per human male is less than two.
Well, I’d get pretty mean if I found myself with less than two.
Of course, you can also say that the average human has approximately one ball and one ovary.
Don’t forget the brass monkey!
You will need another classification since he isn’t human but maybe brass isn’t artificial either, or is it?
For purposes of this discussion, do artificial balls have to be perfectly round or can they be direct competition for real testicles?
If these catch on more, the ratio is going to shift even more.
Also, there is a company that sells prosthetic testicles for (male) dogs that have been neutered to help with the inevitable psychological issues. Do artificial testicles inside an animal count as direct competition against real human testicles?
Even the gyroscope balls in Gravity probe B can’t meet that standard, and they’re pretty darn round:
Y’know, it never even occured to me that neutron stars are the most regular “objects” in the Universe, but I suppose it’s true. What’s fascinating is that there is a very active subfield of astrophysics based entirely on their irregularities. They are not, however, more spherical than Grav-B’s gyroballs, owing to their equatorial bulge.