2026-09-29 00:07 UTC
Anyway bulk vending machines like this can be set up a couple different ways, gumballs and toy capsules and generally round things use a particular wheel with round holes and for m&m's, smarties etc you're supposed to use a different sort of wheel with triangular holes (you can adjust their width and hence the amount of candy per coin by loosening a set screw), I've got a quite shallow round-holed gumball wheel in this one so it's quite inconsistent for jellybeans
Maybe one penny out of a dollar will get you six
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@ifixcoinops@retro.social 2026-09-29 00:12
Trying every flavour combination of six jellybeans would cost you $138,412,872.01 and it's the .01 that's got me giggling Like imagine slapping that down in notes and patting your pockets trying to find a penny and then going awwww fucking hellllll
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@uep@timeloop.cafe 2026-09-29 00:14
@ifixcoinops@retro.social the mathematical model of perfectly spherical jelly beans ignores important additional variables, though. What if it's not just the beans delivered to your hand, but the beans they have been marinated next to in the machine while waiting, that matter