[Eduard]

There are only ~368 grains of sand per ant?

[jwilk]

The common claim that there are ~7.5E18 (~2.5 × 2⁶⁴) grains of sand seems to originate from this back-of-the-envelope calculation:

https://web.archive.org/web/19990117001023/http://www2.hawai...

It takes only beach sand into account, and of course there's a lot of guessing involved. It could be easily off by many orders of magnitude.

[fragmede]

Well no. See there's this one ant, Jeff, that's hogging them all for itself, so each ant only gets 50 grains grains of sand.

[ManuelKiessling]

No wonder I keep reading about sand shortages.