Talk:Watch of Flowing Time/@comment-5416864-20121028135600

For those of you confused about the 10x comment:

One watch on a pedestal increases speed by 7%, so we're at 107% now. But the second watch increases 107% by 7%, totalling 114.49 (increase of 7.49%). The third increase 114.49% by 7%, increasing it to approx. 112.5 (increase of ~8.01%). Notice how it's increasing more each time than the last time?

This means that after 32 watches on pedestals (32 supposedly being the max), it's not as simple as 7% x 32. Instead of increasing by 224%, as 7 x 32 would lead you to believe, it actually increases by a whopping ~871.5%.

Not quite 10x, but 8.7x is close enough for me. (btw, it would only take two more watches on pedestals to actually amount to 10x... and 50 watches would end up increasing it to 30x.)