Question

In "Rabbitville", the rabbit population squares each year. e.g. If you start with 4 rabbits, you'll have 16 in 1 year, and 256 in 2 years. Once the population exceeds 10,000 bunnies, food will be scarce, and population will begin to decrease.

Write a function years_till_no_carrots that includes a WHILE loop. Given a single integer (# of starting rabbits) as an input, your function should output the number of whole years until the number of rabbits becomes larger than 10000. e.g. years_till_no_carrots(4) = 3 (start with 4 rabbits, population greather than 10000 & food scarce in 3 years)

Answer 1

def years_till_no_carrots(n):
    population = n
    count = 0
    while(population<10000):
        population = population * population
        count += 1
    return count

# Testing
print(years_till_no_carrots(4))

3