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[Matrix]Is it enough just to have 16 women and 7 men to repopulate Zion?

I totally understand the whole Matrix cycle of 100 years, where the Machines destroy Zion. But I'm still skeptical to the idea that 23 people that were released from the Matrix would be enough to repopulate Zion? 

Also keeping in the fact that the One has to choose people that weren't redpilled, otherwise the whole charade of the Matrix disappears. We saw how weak and oblivious Neo was when he first woke up. 

There are two major questions that me and gf have been arguing:

1) Can 23 people actually populate Zion fast enough in 100 years to the numbers we saw in the movie

2) How aware are the 23 people released from the Matrix regarding mankind's predicament? When they are released, they will still have the cable ports on their skins, so they should know something is up, especially so when their children are born without those ports.
gpt
1. No but they aren't going to do it alone.  They are going to free people from the matrix who are going to have children.  Beyond that the size of zion is a bit flexible from the on screen depictions.  At times it seems to be around 1000 or so people and at other times it seems to be closer to 50k.                   
             
2.  They will believe that Neo (or the previous one) freed them from the matrix unaware of the previous incarnation of Zion.  They would not be surprised by the lack of ports in their children in the same way that Neo believes he is the first "one".