Question #e6a1f
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Sep 27, 2014
It would take about 42 h.
This involves several assumptions. Here are mine:
- The mass of a bacterium is 1 × 10⁻¹⁵ kg.
- The mass of a human is 70 kg.
- There is only exponential growth, with no lag phase or stationary phase.
The equation for exponential growth is
This gives
64.9 min × 38.8 h = 2520 min = 42 h (2 significant figures)
Scary!