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[–] [email protected] 11 points 4 months ago (1 children)

that is purposeful. it wouldn't make much of a point if it took 10 days.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 months ago (3 children)

I mean sure it would? That's rhe whole point is that exponential growth quickly reaches massive quantities. Like literally after 120 days I doubt that many lilypads would fit on earth.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I’m not sure what lily pads so I went with the largest which have around 7.069m^2^ of surface area or 0.0000007069km^2^ surface area.

Earth has a surface area of 510,064,472km^2^

After 120 days of doubling we have

6.64614x10^35^ * 7.069x10^-6^ = 4.6982Ex10^30^

So you are correct but it’s also around 23x the surface area of the sun.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago

I love how their goof helped further show how humans suck with exponential numbers

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 months ago

I think the lilypads might need to be smaller than an atomic nucleus? Someone check my math. But still larger than a Planck length, so it is fine.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

they wouldn't, but it's not a real pond, and not real lily pads. i was going to say 20 but went for 120 to make the ratio more extreme, not to make it realistic.