Physics students disprove children's author Roald Dahl's peach calculation

Tuesday, January 8, 2013 - 09:30 in Earth & Climate

Four students have calculated that it would take 2,425,907 seagulls, rather than the 501 described in Roald Dahl’s James and the Giant Peach, to airlift the giant peach across the Atlantic Ocean.

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