Most of us have heard the story of the little boy walking along a beach covered with starfish. He began tossing them into the water one by one. A man approached saying, "Son, with thousands of starfish lying in the hot sun, how do you expect to make a difference?" The boy picked up a starfish and tossed it into the sea, "I made a difference to that one!"
Indeed, the boy could save one at a time, and he could never save them all. But let's consider this story in a new light. Imagine that every starfish that was saved was able to join forces with the boy to become a starfish-saver. Armed with this new strategy, how long would it take to save all the starfish on the beach?
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