149. Repeater Machine Similarly, repeater machine is a hypothetical machine which automatically enlarges items several times. For example, sending a piece of wire through a (× 2^4) machine is the same as putting it through a (× 2) machine four times. So, if you send a 3 cm piece of wire through a (× 2^4) machine, its length becomes 3 × 2 × 2 × 2 × 2 = 48 cm. It can also be written that a base (2) machine is being applied 4 times.