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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.
Wheat and chessboard problem: Do not mess with exponential growth, especially while agreeing to a suspiciously-low reward for a commoner. Will Rogers phenomenon: When moving an element from one set to another set raises – counter-intuitively – the average values of both sets. Also known as the Will Rogers paradox. Zenzizenzizenzic
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).
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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]
A mathematical chess problem is a mathematical problem which is formulated using a chessboard and chess pieces. These problems belong to recreational mathematics.The most well-known problems of this kind are the eight queens puzzle and the knight's tour problem, which have connection to graph theory and combinatorics.
The Steinhaus chessboard theorem is the following theorem, due to Hugo Steinhaus: [1] Consider a chessboard on which some cells contain landmines . Then, either the king can cross the board from left to right without meeting a mined square, or the rook can cross the board from top to bottom moving only on mined squares.