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Pumpkin56
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Post subject: Halloween math problem  Posted: Thu Apr 19, 2012 9:41 am |
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Here's one for the Pumpkinheads who like math and numbers. I care for neither. A coworker passed this along to me a few minutes ago: A vampire moves into a town with 500,000 residents. A vampire can turn two people per month into vampires. How long will it take for the increasing population of vampires to turn the entire town? It's already making my head hurt, so I quit 
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Pumpkin_Man
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Post subject: Re: Halloween math problem Posted: Thu Apr 19, 2012 10:40 am |
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Basicaly you're dealing with the powers of 2, so it would go something like this:
month 1 2
month 2 4
month 3 8
month 4 16
You get the gist of it. It's like you get a penny a day, doubled every day for 30 days. You will be seriously rich by the end of the 30 days.
I will guess about 12 months give or take.
Mike
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zoltan hound dracula
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Post subject: Re: Halloween math problem Posted: Thu Apr 19, 2012 10:44 am |
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WELL PUMPKIN56,YOU HAVE OUR HEADS SCRATCHING,I SAY 18 MONTHS 
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zoltan hound dracula
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Post subject: Re: Halloween math problem Posted: Thu Apr 19, 2012 12:12 pm |
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RIGHT OK PUMPKIN56,AFTER SOME SERIOUS THOUGHT,WELL 18 MONTHS WAS A GUESS,SO THIS IS HOW IV"E WORKED IT OUT 1 MONTH-3 2 MONTH-9 3 MONTH-27 4 MONTH-81 5 MONTH-243 6 MONTH-729 7 MONTH-2187 8 MONTH-6561 9 MONTH-19683 10 MONTH-59049 11 MONTH-177147 12 MONTH-531441 SO ITS JUST OVER A YEAR PUMPKIN56
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jadewik
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Post subject: Re: Halloween math problem Posted: Thu Apr 19, 2012 5:23 pm |
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I'm still trying to wrap my mind around why the lone vamp would be turning anyone. What about his food supply?
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johnsoneliza52
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Post subject: Re: Halloween math problem Posted: Sat Apr 21, 2012 2:07 pm |
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My head hurt at "math problem"
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Post subject: Re: Halloween math problem Posted: Tue Apr 24, 2012 7:04 am |
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my neck hurt at vampire :p
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Pumpkin56
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Post subject: Re: Halloween math problem Posted: Thu Apr 26, 2012 1:16 pm |
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jadewik wrote: I'm still trying to wrap my mind around why the lone vamp would be turning anyone. What about his food supply? Seriously. Didn't that fool see Daybreakers?
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tantraman
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Post subject: Re: Halloween math problem Posted: Mon Apr 30, 2012 6:07 pm |
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Pumpkin_Man wrote: Basicaly you're dealing with the powers of 2, so it would go something like this:
month 1 2
month 2 4
month 3 8
month 4 16
You get the gist of it. It's like you get a penny a day, doubled every day for 30 days. You will be seriously rich by the end of the 30 days.
I will guess about 12 months give or take.
Mike like a pyramid scheme LOL _________________ happy happy halloween silver shamrock.
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Post subject: Re: Halloween math problem Posted: Tue May 01, 2012 3:35 pm |
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Thats one way to look at it. But mathematical powers are all like that.
Mike
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