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  2. Wheat and chessboard problem - Wikipedia

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    [7] The number of grains of wheat on the second half of the chessboard is 2 32 + 2 33 + 2 34 + ... + 2 63, for a total of 2 64 − 2 32 grains. This is equal to the square of the number of grains on the first half of the board, plus itself. The first square of the second half alone contains one more grain than the entire first half.

  3. Alexander P. Anderson - Wikipedia

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    By fair's end, Anderson's team had puffed more than 20,000 pounds of rice and sold a quarter-million packages. [1] He obtained patents on the process and started the Anderson Puffed Rice Company in 1905. American Cereal, a subsidiary the Quaker Oats Company, sold his new product as a breakfast cereal called Puffed Rice.

  4. Rice production in the United States - Wikipedia

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    After 1880, their average annual production approximated 46 million pounds of cleaned rice, of which North Carolina produced 5.5 million, South Carolina 27 million and Georgia 13.5 million pounds. [11] The rice industry in Louisiana began around the time of the Civil War. For a number of years, production was small, but during the 1870s the ...

  5. A World Without Rice Would Be a World Without Culture - AOL

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    With a monthly purchase of around 5,000 pounds of rice for my restaurants, I have developed a deep appreciation for its role in feeding families and communities—and an understanding of why it ...

  6. This Is the Real Reason Why 'Pounds' Is Abbreviated to 'lbs'

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  7. Rice - Wikipedia

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    For other uses, see Rice (disambiguation). Rice plant (Oryza sativa) with branched panicles containing many grains on each stem Rice grains of different varieties at the International Rice Research Institute Rice is a cereal grain and in its domesticated form is the staple food of over half of the world's population, particularly in Asia and Africa. Rice is the seed of the grass species Oryza ...

  8. FDA elevates recall in 7 states of California farm’s rice ...

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    A one-pound bag of Lundberg Family Farms Sustainable Wild Blend Rice. A lot of the product, around 27,000 bags, were recalled because they may contain a foreign object that “appears to be of ...

  9. Oryza sativa - Wikipedia

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    Oryza sativa, having the common name Asian cultivated rice, [2] is the much more common of the two rice species cultivated as a cereal, the other species being O. glaberrima, African rice. It was first domesticated in the Yangtze River basin in China 13,500 to 8,200 years ago.