Online calculator tells you how long your toilet paper will last

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An online toilet roll calculator will tell you how long your stocks of the precious paper will last during coronavirus isolation. Howmuchtoiletpaper.com is a website created by two Londoners, student software developer Ben Sassoon and artist Sam Harris. If you use the Advanced Options section, you can really even more precise information, for example inputing the average number of wipes per trip, the number of sheets per wipe and more.

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  Chas Newkey-Burden has been part of The Week Digital team for more than a decade and a journalist for 25 years, starting out on the irreverent football weekly 90 Minutes, before moving to lifestyle magazines Loaded and Attitude. He was a columnist for The Big Issue and landed a world exclusive with David Beckham that became the weekly magazine’s bestselling issue. He now writes regularly for The Guardian, The Telegraph, The Independent, Metro, FourFourTwo and the i new site. He is also the author of a number of non-fiction books.