Math? Ha! Ha!
I just realized what the hell you were doing with your second post. You were trying to give ME a math lesson. As I suspected you're not too bright. You didn't really understand my question.
You see, until nutrients are exhausted, yeast doubles in population at a fixed rate of time. This, just so you know (and do spread the word in AK), is known as an exponential rate of growth. So, if that rate is, lets say 20 minutes, and I put in, say 1/16 of the yeast I would normally put, in it would take about 60 minutes to catch up to the normal amount of yeast I would put in. Meaning, I would've been behind by 60 minutes only and not by a factor of 1/16.
That's what I meant when I said, "I pitched it figuring that the exponential rate of growth would mean that it would work out to be about the same amount of time + a few minutes to a couple of hours at most".
Now tell me more about your hillbilly state, 'cus I really give a crap.