I'm gonna grow you to 110% of your size and then shrink you to 90% of that size and then repeat this process about three hundred times. Now, after I complete this process... do you think your size will have changed at all? - ThreadSky

leahsize.bsky.social • 8 days ago

I'm gonna grow you to 110% of your size and then shrink you to 90% of that size and then repeat this process about three hundred times.

Now, after I complete this process... do you think your size will have changed at all?

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laceyfairy.bsky.social•8 days ago

Fuck I don't want to have to do math!! I'm a fairy, not a nerd!!

leahsize.bsky.social•8 days ago

Well then I guess you'll just have to take my word for it that you're itty bitty now~

stellaedgecomb.bsky.social•8 days ago

Yes, because the difference isn't the same going up vs. down, I'll end up smaller--wait why did I say I'll--

leahsize.bsky.social•8 days ago

I need to perform a live demonstration for those people who believe they'll stay the same size, after all. It might take a while with this methood, but I can still get you plenty small~

dakatzman92.bsky.social•8 days ago

Well, seems like a great time to explain the concept and power of multiplicative effects.

Also, did the math (and if it's right), the subject would be 5% of their original height after 300 iterations.

dakatzman92.bsky.social•8 days ago

1×(0.9^300)×(1.1^300) = 0.0490408941

For the number whores.

thehaarpist.bsky.social•8 days ago

Wouldn't (.9x1.1)^300 work? I know it's the same answer but is there a rule that prevents that simplification from being "correct"

dakatzman92.bsky.social•8 days ago

Yes, it would still be correct. No rule prevents it from being right because I believe it still falls under both the commutative property for multiplication, and the power product rule for exponents.

I just didn't feel like simplifying it.

catgirlharmony.bsky.social•8 days ago

I’d lose ~1% of my height with every cycle.

shrunkenquartet.bsky.social•8 days ago

Oooooo

A maths problem. Time to use half of my degree.

So every single time you do the action you end up 0.99 times smaller.

craftsunemiku.bsky.social•8 days ago

Pfft no way! They're both 10% off of 100 so I'll definitely still be a tall witch!

leahsize.bsky.social•8 days ago

Well then I'm sure you won't mind at all if I do this to you. Surely when your eye level going down just a tiny bit with each cycle it's just an optical illusion of some sort.

craftsunemiku.bsky.social•8 days ago

I'd need to prepare a stool in advance...
>////<

leahsize.bsky.social•8 days ago

Shame you didn't think this was going to have an effect, so you couldn't have.

Don't worry though, I can always kneel down/crouch down to your level~

craftsunemiku.bsky.social•8 days ago

Weh... that is very considerate of you... I think

I don't think I'd mind that gradual perspective shift...

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