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Exponential Growth xkcd.com/2936

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ATbsky-un0316.bsky.social

???

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EGastrocat.bsky.social

You can't castle anymore when you do this, but you can silo

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LCbosslca.bsky.social

If you haven’t promoted to a rice cooker by the time they reach the second rank you might as well pack it up.

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Rredreddington.bsky.social

En pilauassant

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Nnwbvt.bsky.social

My brother and I had a book which recommended the following scheme. Make a deal with your parents with the following terms. Every day you will perform some chore (like doing the dishes). The first day you will make $0.01. The second $0.02. And it will continue doubling every day.

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JMbutlisten.bsky.social

Bishop to 6 foot tall pile of rice

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Vvale.rocks

For the curious, there would be 9 223 372 000 000 000 000 grains on the last square. Calculated with 2^63. That reads "nine quintillion two hundred twenty-three quadrillion three hundred seventy-two trillion".

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AEanniesegal.bsky.social

This is like how my sister 'played' when Dad tried to teach her how to play when she was about 7: *picks up a piece* "I don't like this guy!" *throws the piece across the room!*

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XTxkcd-titletext.bsky.social

Title text: "Karpov's construction of a series of increasingly large rice cookers led to a protracted deadlock, but exponential growth won in the end." Alt text: https://explainxkcd.com/2936#Transcript

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Randall Munroe
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