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

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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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I’m not sure what lily pads so I went with the largest which have around 7.069m2 of surface area or 0.0000007069km2 surface area.

Earth has a surface area of 510,064,472km2

After 120 days of doubling we have

6.64614x1035 * 7.069x10-6 = 4.6982Ex1030

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

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

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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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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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