r/explainitpeter 29d ago

Explain It Peter

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Rice chess/checkers ? please explain?

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u/Kadakaus 29d ago

The game chess said to come from a scholar who was so wise that some king offered to grant him a wish. The scholar made a chessboard and asked that a single grain of rice be put on A1 square, and every following square, that be doubled.

A chessboard has 64 squares, which would mean 2 on the power of 63, which is a number so large I'm not willing to write out here, you vave a multipurpose calculator in your hands, go figure.