Comment on Anon is an anthropologist

• emeralddawn45@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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 ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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 ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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

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  • barsquid@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨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.

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  • pyre@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨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.

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