An episode of Monk had the title character go to a carnival as part of an investigation with Sharona and Benji.She doesn't say how he used the numbers, but presumably he didn't just put all the numbers together (which would be over 4 billion) or add them up (only 108). Lost: Martha, the woman Hurley visits in Western Australia, tells Hurley that her husband used the Numbers to calculate the number of beans in a jar.They were both correct, and they both had to share the locker. Freddie did complicated math, while Sam just guessed because 'Mama knows her Fat Cakes'. iCarly: The school has a contest involving guessing how many Fat Cakes were in a jar, all to win the largest locker in school.The Corner Gas episode ' Bean There' had this as an A-plot, but Brent, Karen and Emma had trouble counting the beans for the contest, so they had to estimate it for themselves and keep the townsfolk from knowing they're making stuff up.In The Brady Bunch episode 'The Tattle-Tale' (s2e10), Alice is found counting jellybeans in the kitchen, to approximate the number of beans for a store contest.When the jar is emptied, Lisa finds out why she didn't get it right - one of the jellybeans was much bigger than the others. Despite Lisa's calculations, they fail, but Homer wins it by just happening to say the correct number while he's nearby.

An issue of The Simpsons features one, which Bart and Lisa try to win.The legitimacy of this power is somewhat questionable not only is this just simple multiplication, but Superman got the answer wrong by a factor of 10 too high, ignoring the rounding errors. Superman once used 'super-mathematics' to determine the amount of beans in a jar by knowing the weight of one bean and the weight of the jar.Donald then tried to sabotage the contest by having a bird eat some of the beans, but Gladstone still won since one of the beans germinated, and the resulting plant provided enough beans to make up for the ones the bird had eaten. Gladstone just made a random guess, while Donald went so far as to purchase a similar jar as the one in the contest, fill it up with beans, and count them.and concluded that Gladstone had guessed exactly the right number. Disney Ducks Comic Universe: One story had Donald and Gladstone both participate in a contest like this, with regular beans instead of jellybeans, organized by a travel agency.

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