Tim Richardson

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New York Times does math

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He had already found a way to increase the civets’ output exponentially by mechanically stripping the coffee beans from the cherries and mixing them in a banana mash. The civets gobbled it all up. This way, no beans were wasted. What is more, he had raised the dung production from 2.2 pounds a week to a whopping 6.6 pounds a day.

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/18/world/asia/18civetcoffee.html?pagewanted=2&ref=general&src=me

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exponential_growth

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