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Are there, generally speaking, less questions on a Friday and Saturday late afternoon/evening than at other times?
I am just wondering if there is a trend, or pattern? Is it that most people have one of those things called a *life* so they are off doing things, like spending time with family, kids, friends?
I do remember from school grammar of more than fifty years ago that less is an adjective of quantity, whereas fewer is an adjective of number. COUNTABILITY matters here. For example, I saw less bread on the supermarket shelves this morning. I saw fewer loaves of bread on the supermarket shelves this morning. Hope this clears things up.
Now I'll put forward a point of view. Why do we have two separate words to indicate a decrease in quantity or number, but only one to indicate an increase? Morebread, and more loaves of bread.
Which gives approximately 100 million per kilogram.
Except Lawrence Davies, also on Quora...
Spotted a possible slight mistake in the maths. If you're using 200 microns, that's 0.02 cm. If you're taking the particles as approximately cubic in shape you'll get 1.5 x 0.02^3 = 0.000012 g, or about 10^-5 grams (the rounding down makes up a bit for rounded edges on the specks). So maybe a decimal place was missed (easily done) and that's 100 million per packet?
The flour in my 1kg packet I've examined appeared to be only about 100 microns (not visible at around 40 cm from the naked eye, though visible at about 20 cm). So for these you'd be looking at around 800 million specks per packet. Or getting on for a billion!
So it makes sense to talk of less flour rather than fewer grains of flour. And this would apply to all masses of things that are too numerous to count.
This post was edited by Benedict Arnold at June 7, 2018 5:49 PM MDT
I've noticed this site is far more active when it is the week-end in the USA - and the level of activity varies across night and day, and across the time-zones.
You may be right! I suspect you are. I probably don't follow things as closely as I might - I just sit back and expect others to do the work and provide for me lots of questions to answer :P
On the subject of grammar and spelling, weekend is one word. But my main question is that, allowing for a 24-hour variation in time zones, isn't it the weekend at least part of the time in the entire world at once?
Stu Spelling Bee 