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Comment by tremon

15 hours ago

Then you'd have an infinite series, as each doll would have to contain two smaller copies.

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captainbland  15 hours ago

But the real question is would you be able to determine this had happened from the surface of the outside doll if all of the masses of the inner dolls are half of the i-1 outer one, leading to a total mass of 2n?

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