[ExI] Intelligence test

Anton Sherwood bronto at pobox.com
Wed Nov 25 21:47:48 UTC 2020


On 2020-11-25 11:28, William Flynn Wallace via extropy-chat wrote:
> "A pool contains a plant that doubles in size each day.  How many days 
> does it take for the plant to fill the pool?"  (If you take more than 
> three seconds on this one you flunk)
	[...]
> 29 days - many just blurt out 15 - none of you, certainly

I'm guessing that the original question was something like this:
"If you put a single water-lily in the pool, it will fill the pool in 30 
days.  If you put two water-lilies in the pool, how soon will the pool 
be filled?"

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