Cell Division
More fun with loops…!
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2 min readMar 5, 2018
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All of us started out as a single cell, that split in half. Then each of those 2 cells split in half, and then each of those split in half…
The total number of cells (after each cell division) is exponential — it follows the powers of 2:
We can write a program that will tell us the total number of cells in each generation, up to a certain number of generations.
To do this, we need a while loop, and TWO variables:
- a
genvariable, that represents the generation number (increases by 1 each time the loop runs) - a
totalvariable, that represents the total number of cells after each generation (equal to2 ** gen)
