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Offline Matthew

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I will prove to you that humans cant grasp Exponential Function
« on: July 12, 2014, 11:18:32 PM »
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    • Assuming that a piece of paper is .01 cm
    And the distance from the Earth to the Moon is 384,000 km

    How many times would you have to double that paper's thickness before you'd have a stack of paper high enough to reach the moon?

    It seems like it would take a while: First 0.01 cm, then it goes to 0.02 cm, then 0.04 cm, etc.

    Answer: 42 times. That's it.

    Behold the power of the exponential function, and it's something that our little brains have a hard time grasping.
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    I will prove to you that humans cant grasp Exponential Function
    « Reply #1 on: July 13, 2014, 12:46:17 AM »
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    • I got a glimpse of this while doing genealogy. You have two parents. Four grandparents. 8 great grandparents. 16...32....64....128. And that's only going back 7 generations. It breaks the 1000 mark fairly quickly. All those people being your direct ancestors.  
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