a math problem
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tropeWhat do you get the most of during the twelve days of Christmas?
In the traditional song, you get one partridge in a pear tree, but you get one on all twelve days. 12 partridges, a whole lotta pears. You get 10 lords a-leaping on the last three days (10, 11, 12) so you end up with 30 lords. But you get 12 drummers drumming only once, so you only have one drummer for each partridge (which I'm sure they're glad of). Where's the "sweet spot" between quantity and iterations? And is there any way to figure this out besides a brute-force approach, in case someone wanted to do an entire gross of days?
No, I don't want to work today. Why do you ask?
In the traditional song, you get one partridge in a pear tree, but you get one on all twelve days. 12 partridges, a whole lotta pears. You get 10 lords a-leaping on the last three days (10, 11, 12) so you end up with 30 lords. But you get 12 drummers drumming only once, so you only have one drummer for each partridge (which I'm sure they're glad of). Where's the "sweet spot" between quantity and iterations? And is there any way to figure this out besides a brute-force approach, in case someone wanted to do an entire gross of days?
No, I don't want to work today. Why do you ask?
