005 = Airplane Stacks and Backpack Hacks
A Problem Squared
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The Order of Magnitude
This was episode 004, which we recorded this morning. This will make not a lot of sense unless you go back and listen to the previous episode. But I was looking at exponential growth, comparing it to throwing rice into a room. And because I was working out how long it would take for something to happen, I went for the worst case scenario. Because if it takes that long to fill a 10 by 10 by 10 meter cube, your house would definitely have been filled by then. The correct answer is 10 times smaller than what I had actually put into my calculations. So there you are. Your house will have been full of rice two days sooner.
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