how many licks does it take to get to the center of a tootsy pop?

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unklerhaukus · Answer

wont the center reveal it self with temperature and time?  are licks required ?

anonymous · Answer

yeah cause eorison doesnt happen with candy|dw:1347690809926:dw|

unklerhaukus · Answer

i thought they were a frozen treat,  but now  i guess not

anonymous · Answer

oh they are. but i have no time

anonymous · Answer

3 verified experimentally http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LZ0epRjfGLw

hero · Answer

Unfortunately, the answer depends on who you ask. A group of students at Swarthmore Junior High conducted an extensive study on the subject and concluded that getting to the center of a Tootsie Pop took a statistical average of 144 licks. However, the more ambitious and distrusting engineering students at Purdue University chose instead to rely on a “licking machine” modeled after the human tongue for their results. The Boilermakers found it took an average of 364 licks. And while other studies have been done, all the results vary. So in the end, only one thing is certain: The world may never know. http://blogcritics.org/tastes/article/q-how-many-licks-does-it/

unklerhaukus · Answer

i think the best way to determine this is EXPERIMENTATION,

have 10 000 peoples, measure the number of licks required,
ensure that the 10 000, have normal distributions in all the variables 

and calculate the average

kainui · Answer

I'd like to pretend that every lick removes a layer of thickness 'dx' from the lolly.

anonymous · Answer

http://i.imgur.com/cEbwl.jpg

unklerhaukus · Answer

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