Question

a paper in a scholarly journal once claimed every year since 1950 the number of American children gunned down has doubled. the paper appeared in 1995, 45 years after 1950. how many children were killed in 1995 according to the paper?

Answer 1

depends on how many were gunned down in 1950

Answer 2

1

Answer 3

sorry. forgot to put that on there

Answer 4

then the answer is
\[2^{45}\]some ridiculously large number

Answer 5

apparently it is 35,184,372,088,832
http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=2^45

Answer 6

right. some huge unrealistic number