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1 year agoMeh.
It’s doubling each step.
If course it’s at 1/(2^n)
of the final volume at n
steps before the final step.
- At half of its final volume one step before the end
- a quarter of its final volume two steps before the end
- an eighth of its final volume three steps before the end
- a sixteenth of it’s final volume four steps before the end
“Many hands make light work”
As a young child I interpreted this as acknowledging all of the people involved in:
All so I can flick a switch and turn on a light in my house. It really shows that all the small things we take for granted rely on a well functioning society.
Then when I was around 10 or so someone used it in a context where it’s usual interpretation was the only one that made sense.