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?

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anonymous · Answer

depends on how many were gunned down in 1950

anonymous · Answer

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anonymous · Answer

sorry. forgot to put that on there

anonymous · Answer

then the answer is 
$$2^{45}$$some ridiculously large number

anonymous · Answer

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

anonymous · Answer

right. some huge unrealistic number