Comment on Anon is an anthropologist

• pyre@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

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

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  • emeralddawn45@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    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.

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    • Cypher@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      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.

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      • Icalasari@fedia.io ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

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

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    • barsquid@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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.

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    • pyre@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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.

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• JasonDJ@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  The pond is the Pacific Ocean.

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• starman2112@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Nah just really small Lily pads

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