Rubies and diamonds, and _The Man Who Would be King_

[Joel S. Berson]

At 5/30/2007 10:02 PM, you wrote:
>Richard Burton gave Elizabeth Taylor a 69 carat diamond.  About the size of
>a golf ball.
>
>Sam Clements

OK.  So for diamonds:

The Koh-i-Noor is merely 186 carats uncut, so it was cube root of
about two (about 1.3) times the diameter of a golf ball.  Peach.  But
it is "believed to be the most precious".

The Golden Jubilee, "the largest faceted diamond ever cut", 546
carats cut, or cube root of about 8 (or 2) times the diameter of a
golf ball.  Softball.

The Cullinan, "the largest rough gem-quality diamond ever found", was
3106 carats uncut, or cube root of about 45 (about 3.5) times the
diameter of a golf ball --if it was spherical.  Coconut?

[Wikipedia, "List of famous diamonds".]

Joel

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