{"id":8363,"date":"2013-03-30T12:44:09","date_gmt":"2013-03-30T16:44:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/?p=8363"},"modified":"2013-03-30T20:45:47","modified_gmt":"2013-03-31T00:45:47","slug":"moultons-trade-calculations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/2013\/moultons-trade-calculations\/","title":{"rendered":"Moulton’s Trade Calculations"},"content":{"rendered":"

According\u00a0 to a 1767-1770 study referenced in this essay<\/a>, the average wage for an English farm worker was approximately 12 pence per day (plus a small beer allowance), which at 12 pence per shilling and 21 shillings per guinea, translates to approximately 17.38 guineas per year. (While English wages are generally considered to have been lower than colonial ones, it is difficult to find precise figures for colonial wages in British currency, likely due to less extensive record keeping and greater use of payment in goods, so we will use the English wages as a reference point while taking this caveat into account.)<\/p>\n

So how many guineas could fit in Moulton\u2019s oversized boots? Considering that the story written in The Heart of the Mountains<\/i> says that Moulton \u201cransacked the village for the largest pair to be found<\/i>\u201d (emphasis added), we\u2019ll assume that he didn\u2019t custom make any boots and so, while large, the boots would not be unreasonably so.<\/p>\n

\"massive<\/p>\n

One can only imagine what Satan would have done to Moulton if he\u2019d tried to claim these as his boots.<\/i><\/p>\n

\u00a0A local custom riding boots shop said that the largest dimensions that they\u2019ve ever had for boots were 20 inches high (with three inches of that being the foot and the other 17 being the calf), 15 inches long at the foot, six inches wide at the foot, and with a 20 inch calf circumference, which works out to approximately .00664 cubic meters of interior volume.<\/p>\n

Since the King George\u2019s reign began in 1760, the guinea was standardized at 24 mm in diameter and (we estimate) \u22482.5mm in thickness, which means that it would take approximately 5,872 of them to fill each boot described above, 11,745 total.1<\/sup><\/p>\n

This would mean that Moulton was receiving, in exchange for his soul, 678 times the average annual English farm worker\u2019s salary every month.<\/p>\n

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1<\/sup>\u00a0These calculations assume that any bulge in the boots from the weight of the guineas is roughly cancelled out by the inefficient space utilization by the coins.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

According\u00a0 to a 1767-1770 study referenced in this essay, the average wage for an English farm worker was approximately 12 pence per day (plus a small beer allowance), which at 12 pence per shilling and 21 shillings per guinea, translates to approximately 17.38 guineas per year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8364,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8363","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-snips"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/massive-boots.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8363","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8363"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8363\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8462,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8363\/revisions\/8462"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8364"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8363"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8363"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8363"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}