peasea
August 1, 2002, 1:41pm
21
Where’d you get that number? Are you using the n/r method?
peasea
August 1, 2002, 1:43pm
22
*Originally posted by Mangetout *
**When you eat a watermelon, along with the hard black seeds, you’ll often find a large number of soft flat white seeds; I think I’m right in saying that these would have been hard and black too if the flower that preceeded the fruit had received more pollen grains, if this is true (botanists?) then there could well be a very significant difference between the number of black seeds in fruits (we should call them berries actually) of similar size. Not likely to be different by a factor of 100 though, no. **
So, we’re not counting the white seeds, then?
I don’t know.
Joe K is clearly using the n/r method; statistics offering such a range would never be expressed with such precise limits, it would be “between 200 and 450 seeds, averaging about 300”
There, it takes 3 licks to get to the center of tootsie–
wait, what was I counting again