<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">On Wed, Nov 25, 2020 at 12:21 PM Ben Zaiboc via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><div class="gmail_quote"><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 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)<br></div>
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<div 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></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>I do believe the problem statement lacks sufficient information on starting conditions.</div><div><br></div><div>If the plant filled half the pool, the pool would still "contain" it - but the plant would only need 1 day to fill it.</div><div><br></div><div>If the plant completely filled the pool, the pool would still "contain" it - but the plant would need 0 days to fill it (since it starts off filling it). </div></div></div>