The total amount would be a cube about 6cm on edge. Still not too bad with a little vaseline, but the points will kill.
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Plusothercharacterstosatisfyboingboing.
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They should weigh their employees, going in and out. Then plot the results.
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“Puck” suggests that it’s not a cube.
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217 cubic cm. You resolve that into a reasonable “puck” shape, I’m going to bed.
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No, that’s not right, that would be 216cm^3. As was pointed out above, 210g of gold would be 10.87cm^3 in volume.
A 10.87cm^3 cube would be 2.2cm on each side.
Alternatively, it could be a sphere 2.7cm across… or a sausage shape approximately the size of ones index finger.
(Incidentally, where does it say the employee was ‘directed to attempt to recreate the feat’? All I saw was ‘a security employee actually tested the idea’- maybe someone volunteered?)
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On the CBC Radio1 yesterday evening they were talking about this and apparently the puck shape is like a “mini-muffin” … I don’t know what to do with this information.
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Density of gold: 19.32 grams per cubic centimeter
217 cubic centimeters would weigh in at 4192.44 grams, or 4.19244 kg. 
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Nothing, is my advice.
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I can only imagine this working with the incentive that the employee be allowed to keep whatever they can carry?
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#EALING COMEDIES ARE AMONG THE BEST
#diss these films and die like the rest!
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That’s a buttload of gold!
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Per Wikepedia’s definition (i learned about this recently which is why i’m taking advantage and posting it)
The butt is one in a series of English wine cask
units, being half of a tun. It has also been asserted that a butt was
used as a unit of volume for dry measure in the United Kingdom, equivalent to 108 litres (24 imp gal; 29 US gal).
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I assume there is a conversion from English units to Troy. 
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$180,000/$43/gm = 4186gm. That’s the mass of the gold he stole.
I believe the reference to 210gm is the individual pucks, not the total amount.
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Well, there goes the mini-muffin I was going to have for breakfast.
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Welcome to my world.
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Hmm?
Why the 
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