When your dad is a physicist but he flunked out of college
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Still not as heavy as OP’s mom
BritishEric on
Now this is obviously going on doubling every three months, ie exponential growth. But what if it was linear instead?
If we assume the birth weight was 7lbs then a 10 year period (40 3-month increments) would be 280lbs by age 10.
HOWEVER
If we reverse calculate the starting weight given 7.5 trillion as our end coming from doubling 40 times we get roughly 6.8 lbs as the birth weight of this guys son.
Therefore a more accurate linear growth weight after of 6.8 lbs/3 months over 10 years, that comes to 272.
Which is still about 3.8 times the size of an average 10 year old boy(about 70 lbs).
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When your dad is a physicist but he flunked out of college
Still not as heavy as OP’s mom
Now this is obviously going on doubling every three months, ie exponential growth. But what if it was linear instead?
If we assume the birth weight was 7lbs then a 10 year period (40 3-month increments) would be 280lbs by age 10.
HOWEVER
If we reverse calculate the starting weight given 7.5 trillion as our end coming from doubling 40 times we get roughly 6.8 lbs as the birth weight of this guys son.
Therefore a more accurate linear growth weight after of 6.8 lbs/3 months over 10 years, that comes to 272.
Which is still about 3.8 times the size of an average 10 year old boy(about 70 lbs).