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The potato paradox is a mathematical calculation that has a counter-intuitive result. The "paradox" involves dehydrating potatoes by a seemingly minuscule amount, and then calculating a change in mass which is larger than expected. == Description == The paradox has been described as: ''You have 100 lbs of potatoes, which are 99 percent water by weight. You let them dehydrate until they're 98 percent water. How much do they weigh now? ''The Universal Book of Mathematics'' states the problem as follows: In Quine's classification of paradoxes, the potato paradox is a veridical paradox. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Potato paradox」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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