Problema Solution
Bacteria can multiply at an alarming rate when each bacteria splits into two cells, thus doubling. If we start with only on bacteria which can double every hour, how many bacteria will we have by the end of one day?
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start: 1 bacteria
after 1 hours: 2*1 = 2
after 2 hours: 2*2 = 2^2 = 4
after 3 hours: 2*2^2 = 2^3
...
after n hours: 2^n
since one day has 24 hours we have n = 24 and total number of bacteria will be:
2^24 = 16,777,216 bacterias.