How many grains of sand do you need for it to constitute as a pile?

[Naz]

This question has me fucked up and I’ve been discussing with the boys for like an hour now.

Help a brother out

 

[Hyperlight Felix]

three for structural support and one on top in the center is the only possible way you're gonna stack grains of sand

Thus resulting in a pile

 

[Church_1]

I hate sand, it’s course is rough and it gets everywhere..

 

[Thatcher]

Allow me to make your head hurt even more
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sorites_paradox#Paradox_of_the_heap

 

[Church_1]

I HATE THAT AHHHH

 

[Sharp]

I asked some of my teachers and here are the responses:

“It’s too early for this”
“You mean good morning”
“You’re asking me or is it rhetorical? Oh, 1,000?”

 

[Troj/Riko]

2 cos they could balance on each other

 

[Archer]

At least 5

 

[Daemon/Kiev]

I mill to form a heap, maybe?

 

[Hyperlight Felix]

wait are the grains round or cubed

 

[Papi M8]

 

[Troj/Riko]

Sand is irregular

 

[Poseidon]

You grab some sand and put it on other sand, that is a pile of sand

 

[Hyperlight Felix]

poseod9n

 

[Tango2go]

Elip ekam 2 dnas

 

[Thatcher]

I’m starting to hate sand now

 

[Troj/Riko]

Sand is so crunchy bro imagine eating sand. All gritty in your teeth and shit

 

[Issac Freeman]

What.