Under optimal laboratory conditions, a single cell of Escherichia coli undergoes binary fission once every 18 minutes18\text{ minutes}18 minutes.
Determine the number of division cycles this cell and its descendants will complete over a continuous incubation period of 10.5 hours10.5\text{ hours}10.5 hours.
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