What is the community response to antigone's defiance of creon? how is that response ironic?

She admits to being guilty. Though the citizens of Thebes follow Creon's edict, their hearts and minds are with Antigone.  Speaking of Antigone's guilt, Hameon says to Creon: Our Theban folk, with one voice, denies it. Antigone's brash disobedience has made her a folk hero among the people.  This is ironic on many levels: she is a woman, she is a daughter of Oedipus, niece of the king, and soon to be daughter in law of the king.

We know that the number of workers doubles every week.

This implies that the number of workers of the previous week is exactly half of the current one's.

So, it took 11 weeks for the factory to be at half capacity.