How Long Would It Take To Turn This Gear? 😮

Googol Gear: 100 gear chain ⚙️ The Googol Gear is a mechanical marvel designed not for practical use but as a thought experiment to illustrate the extreme limits of exponential growth. Composed of 100 gears in series, each with a 10:1 reduction ratio, it demonstrates how quickly numbers grow and the physical impossibility of sustaining such growth. 📹 danielbruin

Oh wow,thanks zach I was just wondering how long it would take to turn this imaginary gear

Problem with shifting, can't shift to the largest cog

@grok what happens if I rotate the last gear instead?

got it but i have this bicycle

But what if you turn the gears in reverse, how fast will the first go spin?

Huh 🤔

Wow

Interesting

@grok What topic is this in mathematics?

Even though everyone is saying this is useless, I've heard of this before and I actually did wonder how long it would take for the last one to fully rotate

The 35th 2:03 pm of 2026

Cool Post!

Hmmm 🤔 @grok explain

That’s gonna take eternity

5mins.

Someone needs to make this and put it in a museum

Gear chain insanity. Hundreds connected, ratios exploding! ⚙️🤯

𝐃𝐢𝐝 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐤𝐧𝐨𝐰? The longest-running gear machine ever built is the Clock of the Long Now. It’s designed to tick for 10,000 years using massive mechanical gears. Built to make humans think in millennia, not minutes. Time engineered for the future ⏳

Put it into AI bro 😸

Wow me thinking it was a fast thing

@grok any guesses?

@grok will it take all that time?

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