Lots of Eggs

The number of eggs in a basket doubles every minute. If it’s full of eggs in an hour, when was the basket half full?

At 59 minutes. The eggs double every minute, so half full would be a minute before it was full.

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4 Comments on "Lots of Eggs"


Muffin says
February 9, 2019 @ 14:55

A minute earlier.


Strawberry Shortcake says
October 29, 2019 @ 14:25

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Erik says
July 14, 2020 @ 15:40

Assuming the basket started with a single egg, after doubling every minute for 60 minutes there would be 1,152,921,504,606,850,000 eggs. So the real question would be “how big does the basket need to be?”


True says
August 27, 2020 @ 02:00

Yeah, Erik


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