New Nokia phones coming out...

How long is coming soon for a place like Ireland? (also for operators to stock them...)

Pythia wrote:

How long is a piece of string?

Thank you google for providing the answer:

"twice as long as half the length"

*edit: for the javascript nerds out there...

function utf8_len ($s)
{
$len = strlen($s);
$utf8_len=0;
for ($i=0; $i<$len; $i++)
{
$utf8_len++;
if (ord($s[$i]) < 224) // 2 byte string, skip next byte
{
$i++;
}
elseif (ord($s[$x] < 239)) // 3 byte string, skip next 2 bytes
{
$i+=2;
}
}
return $utf8_len;
}

if ($_REQUEST[’string’])
{
echo utf8_len($_REQUEST[’string’]);
}
?>

**edit edit: best answer to the question:

Let us make some assumptions:
The string is at least 1cm in length
Any smaller and calling it a piece of string is perhaps a misnomer, fluff would be a better definition.

The string cannot exceed one ton
Manufacturing such a string would be impractical, and would instead of being named string, would be better termed as a tourist attraction.

String is no thinner than 1.5mm
Thinner than this, and we are entering the territory of thread.

Worst case density is 0.7kg/litre
Otherwise the string will be too weak.

So, we know the maximum weight, and the volume:

1000
---- = 1429 litres or 1.429 cubic metres.
0.7

Therefore, maximum length is

Volume 1.429m

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=

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Area pix0.5mmx0.5mm

So the string length lies between 1cm and 11,644.39km which can be expressed as above

there's you answer, where's mine? (No swear words please! )