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Karpov's construction of a series of increasingly large rice cookers led to a protracted deadlock, but exponential growth won in the end.
this post was submitted on 24 May 2024
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just eat the rice smh
nah i could handle it. i hungy
I like rice, rice is great when you’re hungry and you want 2,000 of something.
This was an old story about the inventor of chess and a king. Let me see if I can dig it up....
Yup, I remember now. It was with wheat grains, not rice:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wheat_and_chessboard_problem
I think there exist a lot of different versions, my 7th grade maths teacher explained it using rice.
I don't see the problem here. It just means more rice for everyone.
This seems wrong...
10^17 milligrams
-> 10^14 grams
-> 10^11 kilograms
-> 10^8 tons
So it should actually be 553 402 322 tons, which means that we can do it only using the rice produced in 2022.
Gotcha, I didn't catch that on my first read-through.