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005 = Airplane Stacks and Backpack Hacks

A Problem Squared

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How Many Layers Can You Put Into a Giant Cake?

Each layer has 517 rows. They start very big but get smaller and smaller as they go out in the circle. 177,000, 987 planes per layer. And then you multiply that by the 24 and you get just over 4.2 million planes. You could fit 6,334,728 Boeing 737s in the same amount of space where you're only allowed one.

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