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Math question: If 10% of the human population was evil and that number increased by 1% per year,

how many years would it take for the entire population to be evil?

Posted - July 22, 2017
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  • My shabby math skills cannot even begin to calculate this.  I suspect though that as the human population is not fixed, the question may be unanswerable.  This is my evasion anyway.
      July 22, 2017 6:42 PM MDT
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  • 44600
    After pondering this for a while and trying to do some iterations on my calculator, I decided there are too many variables and some differential calculus would be needed.
      July 24, 2017 11:04 AM MDT
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  • 22891
    not sure, im not that good in math
      July 23, 2017 5:52 PM MDT
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  • 46117
    Three weeks. 

    The evil will cull the herd and there will be few left that are not evil.  It doesn't take long.

      July 24, 2017 11:06 AM MDT
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