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# Christy!
At that duplication rate, that's 2^1500 or:

350746621104340387476275879602808579935240158803308288
240757980247909638505633222036570808865849692616531504
067954375173992945489414699597541710389180047008478899
564853290972644868027115834629465366821843401386294513
554582649463425253836193893149606446650525517514423355
092491733611303557961097098855806743139542102176578474
326267607330047532753171921336747035633727832970419932
270526633336685099520001750533555290588804341825383867
15523683713208549376

in one night! (I think)
(I helped save b3ta! The Alchemist king of the needlessly complicated, Mon 16 Mar 2009, 19:16, archived)
# If each one that is replicated can then also make 1500 copies a night
we will be swamped by 7pm
(I helped save b3ta! Jamnog Sardines in her eyebrows, lobsters up and down, Mon 16 Mar 2009, 19:18, archived)
# so this is how it ends
/character in apocalyptic movie blog
(I helped save b3ta! discomeats This canoe, Mon 16 Mar 2009, 19:19, archived)
# terminator 5 will be rise of the photocopiers
(I helped save b3ta! Jamnog Sardines in her eyebrows, lobsters up and down, Mon 16 Mar 2009, 19:20, archived)
# Mantrid's drones from Lexx
It was a prophecy!
(I helped save b3ta! Tribs 🦇 ↓ dn ʎɐʍ sᴉɥʇ ↓🦇, Mon 16 Mar 2009, 19:23, archived)
# I WON'T LET THE COPIERS TAKE ME!!
*reloads shotgun, adjusts bandolier of grenades*
(I helped save b3ta! The Alchemist king of the needlessly complicated, Mon 16 Mar 2009, 19:21, archived)
# MARTY! GET TO DA FAX MACHINE!
(I helped save b3ta! discomeats This canoe, Mon 16 Mar 2009, 19:45, archived)
# Film mashups would be so great.
Take single-shot, single line parts of films, and recombine them into a new film, with your favourite characters!

"Back to the Future vs Predator!" "Breakfast club : Aliens!"
(I helped save b3ta! The Alchemist king of the needlessly complicated, Mon 16 Mar 2009, 19:52, archived)
# it could be awesome
but it would be shittingly hard work
(I helped save b3ta! discomeats This canoe, Mon 16 Mar 2009, 20:15, archived)
# well, if it takes 10 hours to make 1500,
then it takes roughly 24 seconds to make each one.

What I mean is, it's not instant

er... is this what the Alchemist meant? I'm shit at maths
(I helped save b3ta! The Coast Of Yemen, Mon 16 Mar 2009, 19:23, archived)
# I would asume they left it on at 5pm when they left the office and
came back at 9am. It doesnt actually say that the energy they use would be used to make 1500 copies. Thus i assume they could put that energy to some other use. mind control for instance.
(I helped save b3ta! Jamnog Sardines in her eyebrows, lobsters up and down, Mon 16 Mar 2009, 19:27, archived)
# Yeah
As I don't work I assumed night to mean nighttime
(I helped save b3ta! The Coast Of Yemen, Mon 16 Mar 2009, 19:28, archived)
# ah but surely the nights are getting shorter
so since your reply 10 hours is now 9 hours 59 minuets and 59 seconds and [(three seconds divided by 256) miliseconds]
edit adding a 24th of the millisecond value for each hour since the post... or one 60th of that value for each minuet... I think

edit : no, I'm wrong
here is the answers!!!
www.gi.alaska.edu/ScienceForum/ASF8/839.html
(I helped save b3ta! Jamnog Sardines in her eyebrows, lobsters up and down, Mon 16 Mar 2009, 19:31, archived)
# the NSA record each copy you make and cross reference it for terrorism
/catnipp blog
(I helped save b3ta! discomeats This canoe, Mon 16 Mar 2009, 19:29, archived)
# I have been working on a new tinfoil alloy hat
for use in tin pot alleys
(I helped save b3ta! Jamnog Sardines in her eyebrows, lobsters up and down, Mon 16 Mar 2009, 19:44, archived)
# Lily's on the pond math problem!
They double in size every 24 secs, so thats, erm

*runs out of fingers*
(I helped save b3ta! Hellzapoppin, Mon 16 Mar 2009, 19:28, archived)
# So am I really, but I was assuming that each copier can instantly start making copies of itself
I think that there's a more complex formula that would give you a better estimate. x(t) = ae^(kt). or so wikipedia would have it.

edit: hmm perhaps a more conservative 8.3742499531133519e+145 or maybe that's bigger. I'm not sure.
(I helped save b3ta! The Alchemist king of the needlessly complicated, Mon 16 Mar 2009, 19:42, archived)
# like bacteria
hmm perhaps there is an anti photocopier agent that would kill 99% of photocopiers dead. So as to keep them down to manageable levels.
(I helped save b3ta! Jamnog Sardines in her eyebrows, lobsters up and down, Mon 16 Mar 2009, 19:46, archived)
# Yeah but each copy can only make so many copies so that formula is slightly wrong
as say a copier can make 10 copies then it dies, then the number of copies will be reduced a bit
(I helped save b3ta! epiphany coming live from sweden, Mon 16 Mar 2009, 19:49, archived)
# But what if the small errors in the copies make them immune to the anti-photocopier agent!
And if the copiers were part of a diverse set of office machines that are red in plug and claw!

A whole office mecha-jungle!!...
(I helped save b3ta! The Alchemist king of the needlessly complicated, Mon 16 Mar 2009, 19:55, archived)
# like some kind of third-generation cephotosporins
(I helped save b3ta! Jamnog Sardines in her eyebrows, lobsters up and down, Mon 16 Mar 2009, 19:59, archived)
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(I helped save b3ta! spacefish bong!, Mon 16 Mar 2009, 19:55, archived)
# hmmm.
since images are just very large numbers, perhaps the primes - suitably encoded - make a series of images, like a flip book.

At infinity, you get a picture of God.
(I helped save b3ta! The Alchemist king of the needlessly complicated, Mon 16 Mar 2009, 19:59, archived)
# at infinity, i should hope for cheat codes
(I helped save b3ta! spacefish bong!, Mon 16 Mar 2009, 20:04, archived)