Fun Fact:
He got the better end of the deal. Had he elected option 1, he would not have gone to college, and would have gotten $0.00.
(That's actually what I was expecting the alt-text to be!)
DaveE
Adkit wrote:Man, I came to this forum for the first time ever and realized it's not for me based on this thread.
He said one penny on square one, two on square two "and so on". That implies he's putting two on all the other squares as well. It's an English joke, not a math joke and most of you seem to overthink it WAY hard.
ManoBore wrote:If you assume that the pennies are about 1 mm thick, then did the exercise the way the son was expecting, the final tile would have a stack of coins one light year tall.
sorabain wrote:kst wrote:I got that the son was expecting $184,467,440,737,095,516.15 (doubling the amount on each square).
To be honest if the son was expecting that much, and his dad isn't some kind of genie out of a bottle then he's a bit clueless for choosing it. How is dad going to pay up such an amount?
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Mez wrote: it's an English joke because he quite literally meant "and two on squares 2-64".
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