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Webangel100 wrote:Would the 64th person have to give you 9,223,372,036,854,776,000 (9 billion billion) grains of rice?

Raymond

Stormynights wrote:

Webangel100 wrote:Would the 64th person have to give you 9,223,372,036,854,776,000 (9 billion billion) grains of rice?

Raymond

That is what I thought about. Mollette likes being a bit tricky.

mollete wrote:

Stormynights wrote:

Webangel100 wrote:Would the 64th person have to give you 9,223,372,036,854,776,000 (9 billion billion) grains of rice?

Raymond

That is what I thought about. Mollette likes being a bit tricky.

But I would pay shipping!

Stormynights wrote:

mollete wrote:

Stormynights wrote:

Webangel100 wrote:Would the 64th person have to give you 9,223,372,036,854,776,000 (9 billion billion) grains of rice?

Raymond

That is what I thought about. Mollette likes being a bit tricky.

But I would pay shipping!

For the rice or for the masks?

mollete wrote:

And I had a whole bunch of great rice recipes, too.

Webangel100 wrote:Would the 64th person have to give you 9,223,372,036,854,776,000 (9 billion billion) grains of rice?

Raymond

ekubaskie wrote:

Webangel100 wrote:Would the 64th person have to give you 9,223,372,036,854,776,000 (9 billion billion) grains of rice?

Raymond

That aspect of the offer popped into my head right away. It's like a lot of early math posers involving 1 penny on the 1st of the month, and doubling the value each day. By the time you reach day 31, you're talking 10.7 billion (U.S. billions). Carry that out to 64 days and there isn't enough "money" on earth to cover the bill.

ems wrote:I can hardly wait to see how this one ends...

here are different stories about the invention of chess. One of them includes the geometric progression problem. Its earliest written record is contained in the Shahnameh, an epic poem written by the Persian poet Ferdowsi between c. 977 and 1010 CE.

When the creator of the game of chess (in some tellings an ancient Indian mathematician, in others a legendary dravida vellalar named Sessa or Sissa) showed his invention to the ruler of the country, the ruler was so pleased that he gave the inventor the right to name his prize for the invention. The man, who was very wise, asked the king this: that for the first square of the chess board, he would receive one grain of wheat (in some tellings, rice), two for the second one, four on the third one, and so forth, doubling the amount each time. The ruler, arithmetically unaware, quickly accepted the inventor's offer, even getting offended by his perceived notion that the inventor was asking for such a low price, and ordered the treasurer to count and hand over the wheat to the inventor. However, when the treasurer took more than a week to calculate the amount of wheat, the ruler asked him for a reason for his tardiness. The treasurer then gave him the result of the calculation, and explained that it would take more than all the assets of the kingdom to give the inventor the reward. The story ends with the inventor becoming the new king. (In other variations of the story the king punishes the inventor.)

ChicagoGranny wrote:

mollete wrote:

And I had a whole bunch of great rice recipes, too.

And I had already ordered the gravy!!!!

TheUglyTruth wrote:It is a bit surprising that some people have never heard of this or contribute it to the wrong origin.

ekubaskie wrote: 3 million years of zero% unemployment over the entire planet -and that only covers the truck drivers!