Mathematics Question/ (3 Viewers)

[SpiralFlex]

For this example say it auto collects

What's the purpose of replanting if it splits by itself?

 

[powlmao]

What's the purpose of replanting if it splits by itself?

because it cannot grow past 3 cubes in height and you can add the time factor in it of each invidivual cube take x time to plant

 

[SpiralFlex]

You have 3 blocks. It takes 6 minutes to grow 2 blocks, making a tower of 3. It takes 3 seconds to plant each block, and 2 seconds to harvest each block. Assuming you harvest each block as soon as it is finished growing and replant each block after harvesting, how many would you have after 48 hours?

What do you mean by tower of 3? If you grew 2 more blocks. There would be five?

I will play Minecraft and see how this works.

 

[TheReapzor]

What do you mean by tower of 3? If you grew 2 more blocks. There would be five?

I will play Minecraft and see how this works.

No, you plant 3 blocks separately, creating 3 towers of 1 which grow into 3 towers of 3

 

[RealiseNothing]

Answer is 3 to the power of 317

Anyone got a calculator which goes that big lol

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[SpiralFlex]

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I think I finally get it! Do you mean like...(see next post)

 

[powlmao]

What do you mean by tower of 3? If you grew 2 more blocks. There would be five?

I will play Minecraft and see how this works.

It has bad graphics but is addictive snadbox game

 

[SpiralFlex]

This is one cactus which took 9 minutes to grow.

When you "hit" it, it splits to 3 separate blocks. Hence once fully grown cactii, there's 9 blocks?

 

[TheReapzor]

This is one cactus which took 9 minutes to grow.

When you "hit" it, it splits to 3 separate blocks. Hence once fully grown cactii, there's 9 blocks?

6 minutes, one block is placed to start it growing, then 2 more can grow on top

 

[AAEldar]

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I got a much larger number, however mine is definitely not right at the moment...

 

[RealiseNothing]

This is one cactus which took 9 minutes to grow.

When you "hit" it, it splits to 3 separate blocks. Hence once fully grown cactii, there's 9 blocks?

Yes.

It just triples every 9 minutes and 5 seconds ( 9mins to grow and 5 seconds to plant/harvest). So do 48 hours divided by 9 mins and 5 seconds which gets you 317. Which basically means that your original cactus is tripled 317 times or in maths terms 3 to the power of 317.

 

[hscishard]

@OP: WOW are you god damn serious LOL!!!!!!!!!!

 

[SpiralFlex]

6 minutes, one block is placed to start it growing, then 2 more can grow on top

Oh. So there's one block to begin?

 

[RealiseNothing]

6 minutes, one block is placed to start it growing, then 2 more can grow on top

The original cactus doesnt count as 1 of the 3 blocks according to the OP. So use 9 minutes.

 

[SpiralFlex]

Yes.

It just triples every 9 minutes and 5 seconds ( 9mins to grow and 5 seconds to plant/harvest). So do 48 hours divided by 9 mins and 5 seconds which gets you 317. Which basically means that your original cactus is tripled 317 times or in maths terms 3 to the power of 317.

I got that answer. But I think we are missing something here.

 

[RealiseNothing]

If the original block counts change the 9 mins and 5 secs to 6 mins and 5 secs.

Answer would then be 3^473

 

[AAEldar]

Yes.

It just triples every 9 minutes and 5 seconds ( 9mins to grow and 5 seconds to plant/harvest). So do 48 hours divided by 9 mins and 5 seconds which gets you 317. Which basically means that your original cactus is tripled 317 times or in maths terms 3 to the power of 317.

It's not that simple. It takes 3 seconds to plant EACH block, so therefore 9 seconds to plant the blocks you harvest from ONE plant. So the planting time goes up in powers of 3, starting at .

 

[powlmao]

No, you originally have 3 blocks butthey are not planted. You use these blocks to plant three different ones.

Also has anyone figured it out with the time delays?

 

[SpiralFlex]

No, you originally have 3 blocks butthey are not planted. You use these blocks to plant three different ones.

Also has anyone figured it out with the time delays?

Okay. Let me finally get this straight. You have three blocks to plant.

You plant them and have potentially 3 trees once germinated? You now have 3 trees (each with 3 blocks), hence 9 blocks. You split those 9 blocks? Correct?

 

[AAEldar]

Also to further add to the tripling every 9 minutes, this isn't so. The plants grow at the same time, with only a 3 second difference between them. Working this out by hand will not be easy.