On Fri, 2003-01-17 at 20:21, civileme wrote: > Well we have a semantics problem perhaps. > > 1st level is the guy who gets one copy or pow(5,0)=1 > 10th level should be pow(5,9) copies, or slightly less than 2 million Previous > level is less than 400,000 and total copies out there is like less than > 2.500,000. > > Perhaps you count the first level as the zeroth? Then by the 10th level we > have more than 12,000,000 copies out there > > #!/usr/bin/env python > import math > total=0.0 > for i in range(11): > x=float(i) > y=math.pow(5.0,x) > total=total+y > print i, y, total > > > [tester@ibm333 tester]$ ./5calc.py > 0 1.0 1.0 > 1 5.0 6.0 > 2 25.0 31.0 > 3 125.0 156.0 > 4 625.0 781.0 > 5 3125.0 3906.0 > 6 15625.0 19531.0 > 7 78125.0 97656.0 > 8 390625.0 488281.0 > 9 1953125.0 2441406.0 > 10 9765625.0 12207031.0 > [tester@ibm333 tester]$ > > > civileme
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