https://xkcd.com/2936

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Karpov’s construction of a series of increasingly large rice cookers led to a protracted deadlock, but exponential growth won in the end.

  • 14th_cylon@lemm.ee
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    1 month ago

    This seems wrong…

    10^17 milligrams

    (2^64−1) × 0.03 = 5.53 × 10^17 is weight in grams.

    but i had an error in the second paragraph where i said this number is number of grains.

    the ultimate result (712 times the annual production) is correct.

    sorry for the confusion and thx for catching that.

    • Kayana
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      1 month ago

      Gotcha, I didn’t catch that on my first read-through.