FoxTrot by Bill Amend for September 10, 2006
September 09, 2006
September 11, 2006
Transcript:
Paige: "A math teacher offers to assign one second of homework the first week of school, two seconds the second week, four seconds the third, and so on. If the amount of homework doubles every week, is this something you would agree to for the duration of the 36-week school year?" I'm a little worried about answering this one wrong. Peter: Is that Mr. Thompson? He's evil.
For the last week of school, she would have 34,359,738,368 seconds of work, or 572,662,306:08 minutes or 9,544,371:46:8 of homework, and if she worked straight through, it would take her over 397,682 days! That’s over 1,089 years!!!