Tribble Math!

[Dylan Torngate]

We all know tribbles: Cute, Cuddly, and putting rabbits to shame, especially in one particular department. To quote one Doctor, "As far as I can tell, they're born pregnant". So I put it to the test. I found this little link,

http://www.movoto.com/blog/novelty-real-estate/star-trek-tribbles/

and have been having fun with it. For example, the Tesla Gigafactory, (10 million square feet of space), if 1 tribble is introduced with enough grain to eat to it's heart's content, with an average litter of 10 every 12 hours, at exponential growth:

in 96 hours one floor of the factory will be filled. With 192,307,692 tribbles. That's a lot of tribbles. Add that up, and add more floors... yeah that's a lot of tribbles.

So how about you? What did you choose? (Note: Planetary bodies are on too massive of a scale to process, please don't be that guy.)

[Daniel Howell]

I chose the Shard, for those of you who don't know, it is a famous building in London. The floor space of is 1,200,000 and has 95 floors. The made a calculation of 23,076,923 in 96 hours.

Not as much as you Dylan, but still quite a lot.