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Another version has the inventor of chess (in some tellings Sessa, an ancient Indian Minister) request his ruler give him wheat according to the wheat and chessboard problem. The ruler laughs it off as a meager prize for a brilliant invention, only to have court treasurers report the unexpectedly huge number of wheat grains would outstrip the ...
The ancient Indian Brahmin mathematician Sissa (also spelt Sessa or Sassa and also known as Sissa ibn Dahir or Lahur Sessa) is a mythical character from India, known for the invention of Chaturanga, the Indian predecessor of chess, and the wheat and chessboard problem he would have presented to the king when he was asked what reward he'd like for that invention.
Mathematics – Answer to the wheat and chessboard problem: When doubling the grains of wheat on each successive square of a chessboard, beginning with one grain of wheat on the first square, the final number of grains of wheat on all 64 squares of the chessboard when added up is 2 64 −1 = 18,446,744,073,709,551,615 (≈1.84 × 10 19).
The world rice consumption is 432.039 million tonnes (International Rice Research Institute [1]), making the chessboard 787 years worth of the world’s consumption of rice. The value of the rice at US$500 per metric tonne (Index Mundi [2] ) is Trillion US$ 171. That's over 2.3 times the annual GDP of the entire world (Trillion US$ 74, IMF 2010 ...
Wheat and chessboard problem This page was last edited on 10 April 2013, at 23:38 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution ...
English: Illustration of "Wheat and chessboard problem" and "Second half of the chessboard" exa E 1000000000000000000 10 18; peta P 1000000000000000 10 15;
High-Protein Veggie Sandwich Formula. Ali Redmond. ... Serve this between two pieces of whole-wheat bread as a sandwich or by itself with tender Bibb lettuce or crunchy celery sticks.
The reward for coding errors found in Knuth's TeX and Metafont programs (as distinguished from errors in Knuth's books) followed an audacious scheme inspired by the wheat and chessboard problem, [10] starting at $2.56, and doubling every year until it reached $327.68. [3]