Two from MetaEfficient:
May 22, 2022
The World’s Smallest Banana Plant: “Truly Tiny” Super Dwarf Cavendish
The smallest banana plant in the world is the “Truly Tiny” Super Dwarf Cavendish Banana. This unique banana variety only grows 2 to 4 feet (61 to 122 cm) in height. It produces small clusters of fruit between 3/4 and 2″ long (2 to 5 cm)....
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May 26, 2022
The Largest Banana In The World: Musa Ingens (Giant Highland Banana)
...The banana fruits themselves are usually about 7 inches (18 cm) long but have been recorded to grow up to 11.8 inches in length (30 centimeters). The bananas grow on peduncles (stems) that are 15 meters long....
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As a side note, 11.8 inches is the distance an electrical signal travels in one nanosecond.
And how do I know this, possibly curious reader asks?
Because of Rear Admiral Grace Hopper. Here's one version of the story from the very appropriately named, for our purposes, Adafruit Industries:
Grace Hopper Once Handed Out Lengths of Wire to Represent How Far Electrical Signal Traveled in a Nanosecond | #makerhistory
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Admiral Hopper was not only the U.S. Navy's first woman restricted [not eligible for sea command] line officer to reach flag rank. She was also, at the age of seventy-nine, the oldest serving officer in the Navy. —Admiral of the Cyber Sea, U.S. Naval Institute
Another article from the U.S. Naval Institute names the Admiral as one of the five Greatest Women in Military History, right up there with Joan of Arc and Queen Boadicea.
Besides the "fruit" the other reason Adafruit Industries is apropos is that one of the computers Grace Hopper worked on, the Harvard Mark1, was an intellectual descendant of Babbage's proposed Analytical Engine, for which Ada Lovelace wrote an algorithm, which pretty much makes her the first computer programmer.
That's what I know about Bananas and Diversity Equity Inclusion.
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If you've stuck with me this long, here's an out-the-door gift, a somewhat cheeky discussion of Babbage and Ada and the predecessor to the Analytical Engine, The Difference Engine, posted December 21, 2019:
You Get One Guess: What Was The Intended Purpose of The Babbage/Lovelace Proto-Computer Project?
