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#118 – Grant Sanderson: Math, Manim, Neural Networks & Teaching with 3Blue1Brown

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Exponential Growth - How Much Time Does It Take to Cover Half of the Lake?

After how many days does it cover half the lake? 49. So you have a good instinct for exponential growth. But I think you can make that even more visceral if rather than going one day before you say, how long until it's covered 1% of the lake, right? And it's, so what would that be? How many times you have to double to get over 100? Like seven, six and a half times, something like that.

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