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Post by klose on Mar 13, 2010 12:15:58 GMT -5
Ah-haha no.  I may not be a mathematician, but I'm not buying that one!  Me neither. That wouldn't be a good deal. Must go and check how much it will make on day 100. There's a mathematical formula to calculate that, although I can't remember it... and now I'm not going to have any peace until I do, lol. |
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Post by willow41z on Mar 13, 2010 13:25:43 GMT -5
Me neither. That wouldn't be a good deal. Must go and check how much it will make on day 100. There's a mathematical formula to calculate that, although I can't remember it... and now I'm not going to have any peace until I do, lol. I think it would be something like 2^n, where n = number of days. I think you have to throw in a constant to account for the starting term... maybe it would be 2^(n-1) since the first day is 1, and you hit 2 on the second day. 2^99, by the way, is 6.338235 * 10^29... so 633,823,500,000,000,000,000,000,000,000. |
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Post by Lia on Mar 13, 2010 13:39:06 GMT -5
You've caught me out  |
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Post by klose on Mar 13, 2010 13:52:12 GMT -5
I think it would be something like 2^n, where n = number of days. I think you have to throw in a constant to account for the starting term... maybe it would be 2^(n-1) since the first day is 1, and you hit 2 on the second day. Really? But the accumulative total on day 2 would be 3, since day 1 provided 1 word. I was thinking of a formula to calculate the equivalent of 1 + 2 + 3 + 4 + ... + n... I finally managed to find this: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triangular_numbersSo on Day 100 - [100 * (100 + 1)]/2 = 5050 words? edit: I'm not taking this seriously, really. |
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Post by Lia on Mar 13, 2010 14:02:33 GMT -5
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Post by klose on Mar 13, 2010 14:21:00 GMT -5
Oh. Of course. For some reason I thought it was to write 1 word on day 1, 2 words on day 2, and so on. (hmmm... someone out there probably has written a story like that!) |
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Post by alassante on Mar 13, 2010 17:38:38 GMT -5
YAY Willow!
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Post by adaneth on Mar 15, 2010 7:59:32 GMT -5
Congratulations, Willow. We're glad you have a hobby. I seem to recall an ancient king who got snookered by that doubling thing, with a chess board and grains of rice . . . . |
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Post by viv on Mar 15, 2010 10:57:55 GMT -5
Congrats, Willow!
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Post by nautika on Mar 17, 2010 18:29:35 GMT -5
I came to congratulate you, Willow, but the math confused me so much that I'm not sure about it.  |
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I may not be a mathematician, but I'm not buying that one! 
