<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:large;color:#000000">Ben, I must have been sleeping when I wrote that. It should be:</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:large;color:#000000"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:large;color:#000000">A plant which grows in size, doubling each day, has reached the size of half of the pool. It will cover the pool in 30 days. How many days did it take to cover half of it? Answer = 29 (quick wrong answer - 15 days) - sorry - bill w (my daily admonition to students "Proofread, proofread, proofread" is now haunting me. </div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Wed, Nov 25, 2020 at 2:21 PM Ben Zaiboc via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
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On 25/11/2020 19:28, bill w wrote:<br>
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<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif;font-size:large;color:rgb(0,0,0)">"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)</div>
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<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif;font-size:large;color:rgb(0,0,0)">29 days</div>
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You're going to have to explain that one, it makes no sense to me.<br>
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