In a lake, there is a patch of lily pads. Every day, the patch doubles in size. If it takes 48 days for the patch to cover the entire lake, how long would it take for the patch to cover half of the lake?
Turns out that people, and especially smart people, are not nearly as rational as they believe.
Read the article here.
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Albert Einstein said the most powerful force in the universe is compound interest! well if 48 days to cover all the lake so at 47 days it would be half covered. I did not read the article….
Ding ding ding! We have a winner! Except I think maybe Einstein said that compound interest was the 8th wonder of the world? Nah, now that I think about it, I think your quote is right.
Smart people get that one wrong, because they realize that the patch of lily pads grows to 281 trillion times the initial size over the 48 days.
If you started with a single pad just 2 inches in diameter, you end up with a “patch” covering 220,000 square miles (bigger than any lake on our planet).
It is easier to say “24 days” than to explain why the tester should be ashamed for asking such a ridiculous question.
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Wood, that’s the best news story you’ve posted in a couple of years.
Unfortunately, many of the people who need to read it, won’t, and they will continue to be easy pickins [sic].