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Karpov's construction of a series of increasingly large rice cookers led to a protracted deadlock, but exponential growth won in the end.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

This seems wrong...

10^17 milligrams

-> 10^14 grams

-> 10^11 kilograms

-> 10^8 tons

So it should actually be 553 402 322 tons, which means that we can do it only using the rice produced in 2022.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

This seems wrong…

10^17 milligrams

(2^64−1) × 0.03 = 5.53 × 10^17 is weight in grams.

but i had an error in the second paragraph where i said this number is number of grains.

the ultimate result (712 times the annual production) is correct.

sorry for the confusion and thx for catching that.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago

Gotcha, I didn't catch that on my first read-through.