by heyitscory » Fri Dec 23, 2016 10:47 am
18,446,744,073,709,551,615 grains in total, once the 64th square is filled. Assuming your number of 64 grains to a gram, that's 288,230,376,151,711 kg of rice or roughly 500 times the amount of rice that is consumed globally in a year. The wise man was foolish to think the king would go for the idea or even be able to hold up his end of the bargain, but asking for enough rice to feed all of China for all of China's history, and then some... that's a pretty good prize.
18,446,744,073,709,551,615 grains in total, once the 64th square is filled. Assuming your number of 64 grains to a gram, that's 288,230,376,151,711 kg of rice or roughly 500 times the amount of rice that is consumed globally in a year. The wise man was foolish to think the king would go for the idea or even be able to hold up his end of the bargain, but asking for enough rice to feed all of China for all of China's history, and then some... that's a pretty good prize.