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Forgive the tiktok-ess title
*esque
Actually meant to write ass
I’m just glad you didn’t say ahh instead of ass.
that way of writing originated from the strong censorship that tiktok had. now you can say almost anything without them caring
Hi! I don’t know. I see the rice is being doubled on each square, but idk what this is referencing.
It’s an old story from the middle east (maybe part of the a thousand and one nights story?), I think, about a king who granted a favor to someone, only requiring that it be small. The philosopher/farmer/common-man hero had the humble request of filling a chess board with grains of rice, starting with one on the first tile, but doubling each time. Some variants, you’ll hear it as a gold coin. Anyone who does the math in their head, that’s 2^63 on the last tile, plus all the others (so 2^64-1), which is more grains of rice than probably exist, maybe more than ever have existed (1.84e19).
Hmm, now I’m curious… but I see lvxferre has already done the math.
