This was not the first time that microbiologists experienced problems with agar. A phenomenon called “The Great Plate Count Anomaly” baffled researchers in the early 20th century when they observed that the number of cells seen under a microscope didn’t match the actual number of colonies growing on an agar plate. Investigating this discrepancy, researchers found agar itself to be the culprit: when nutrient broths are heated with agar during boiling, harmful byproducts (hydroperoxide) can form due to the reaction of agar with phosphate minerals contained in the media. Researchers can avoid this by autoclaving agar separately from the nutrient broth, or by reducing the amount of agar used.
That gives me the math for the title of this post. Each test user had a playfield with ~2,200 characters, and each character contains 2 pixels. The game runs at 10 FPS. 2500 * 2200 * 2 * 10 is a little over 100 million! Maybe that’s not a fair measurement, but it’s the one I chose.
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