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> I had to take her aside, and write a short Python program to show that after seven generations of recruitment, the entirety of our country would be selling Me
by KMag 11y ago
> I had to take her aside, and write a short Python program to show that after seven generations of recruitment, the entirety of our country would be selling Melaleuca to each other.
Layer 1 -> 1 person
Layer 2 -> 5 people (6 total)
Layer 3 -> 25 people (31 total)
...
Layer N -> 5 ** (N-1) people ((5 ** N - 1 ) / 4 total)
...
Layer 7 -> 15625 people (19531 total)
Ahoy, Cook Islander! [0]
Solving for the fanout to match the population of my Special Administrative Region [0] in 7 generations :
(Fanout ** 6 - 1) / (Fanout - 1) = 7298600
Fanout ~= 23.380354
[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_and_dependencies_by_population https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_and_dependen...
- KMag 11y agoNote that I actually solved the fanout to reach the whole Hong Kong population for 6 generations, not 7. Oops.