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Geek Culture / What total do you get.

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HowDo
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Posted: 21st Oct 2006 08:01 Edited at: 21st Oct 2006 08:02
Hi All

I know its not far away but here one for you, if you had a very rich person and they where to make an advent calendar, In which each pocket had double the last pocket, eg, 1=1, 2=2, 3=4, 4=8, how much would you have to put in the 24 or 25 one?

and whats the total cost?

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dark coder
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Posted: 21st Oct 2006 09:27
8388608 , 16777216
total: 33554431

What's the point of this?

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Lost in Thought
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Posted: 21st Oct 2006 12:17
Why didn't you just write a code to do all that for you

Chris Franklin
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Lost in Thought
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Posted: 21st Oct 2006 12:24


?

Chris K
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Posted: 21st Oct 2006 13:15
Or why didn't you just sum the series.

Pretty much the easiest series you can get.

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Dazzag
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Posted: 21st Oct 2006 13:24
Isn't this like really old? Like that chess board rice thingy? Sure we did it in some lecture in Uni or whatever. With the chess board it was like more rice than in the whole world or somesuch. Think it was in AI lecture as the follow up was total unique games of chess. Think there was more than the age of the universe. In seconds.

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PowerSoft
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Posted: 21st Oct 2006 14:27
Actually you are all being silly.....

All it is is a simple binary count....

So basically to find the value in the n'th pocket you would do:

2^(n-1)


Cheers,
Rich

BatVink
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Posted: 21st Oct 2006 17:35
Put this in a different context...

every peson needs 2 parents. Each of these parents needs 2 parents of their own, and so forth.

By the time you go back to the Roman era, you need to have had over 1 trillion people to make up the pairs. That is many, many more times the number of people that ever lived.

So to put it another way, many of your ancestors were born from parents who were already blood-relatives. That's what makes you as weird as you are



Mr Tank
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Posted: 21st Oct 2006 18:14
Total = 2^25 -1
nth pocket = 2^(n-1)

like everyone said already.


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Robot
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Posted: 21st Oct 2006 19:37
@Batvink but not everyones parents are different people, ie. brothers and sisters have the same parents.
Chris K
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Posted: 22nd Oct 2006 01:01
Yeah I was just about to say that.

The generations get smaller as you go back, because most couples have two or more children.

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Fallout
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Posted: 22nd Oct 2006 02:50 Edited at: 22nd Oct 2006 02:51
Ignore these fools! The answer is 9!!!!


Megaton Cat
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Posted: 22nd Oct 2006 02:54
The boy lies. It's 42!

Wiggett
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Posted: 22nd Oct 2006 14:07
go back to maths camp nerds,

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