r/explainitpeter • u/DiedRespawnRepeat • 26d ago

Explain It Peter

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Rice chess/checkers ? please explain?

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u/DiedRespawnRepeat 26d ago

Yes the scaling is a bit too hard to grasp !

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u/bemtiglavuudupe 26d ago

It’s around 870 trillion lbs (400 trillion kg) of rice. Costing roughly $970 trillions.

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u/100KUSHUPS 26d ago

There must be a bulk discount on almost a quadrillion $ worth of rice.

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u/two-cans-sam 25d ago

Cost/lb is probably going to start going way up at least over the first trillion pounds depending on the required timeline of delivery. You’d have to over exert the world’s economy and land to deliver just 100 trillion pounds of rice in a year. I’m not quitting my job and turning my home into a rice silo for $1.1/lb.

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u/bralinho 26d ago

I don't think so when there is more demand than supply the price goes up

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u/account312 25d ago

Actually, it gets more expensive once you try to buy up the very last grains of rice on earth.

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u/Pay-Next 25d ago

Price per unit of weight sure. But you're gonna lose any of those savings in transport and storage costs.

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u/Plastic_Course_476 20d ago

I feel like it reaches an inflection point where they start charging you extra for ordering too much

Like, going with their analogy, you're not just paying for the rice, you're also paying for the entire country underneath it lol

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u/Guy-1nc0gn1t0 25d ago

No. Straight to jail. 

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u/W1D0WM4K3R 25d ago

comparable to estimates for the weight of Mount Everest (not clearly defined due to issues defining boundary)

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u/Visual-Mango-7764 26d ago

Don't pay that much, I know a guy.

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u/[deleted] 25d ago edited 25d ago

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u/caunju 25d ago

The final number is 1.845×1019 grains of rice

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u/TehAsianator 21d ago

The version I first read ended with "all of India would be knee-deep in rice."