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Double it and give it to the next person
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this post was submitted on 16 Oct 2025
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Why the double smile?
Person who knows asks the person who doesn't know to pay them in grains of rice by putting a grain of rice on one square of a chess board and double it for each other square. So one in the first, two in the second, four in the third, etc. So 1 doubled 64 times. The one who don't understand thinks they're getting a deal and it'll end up as a modest amount of rice. The one who does understand knows that the total will be 1.8x10^19^ grains of rice on the board. Hence they are both smiling... at first.
For reference, assuming an average grain of rice is 5 millimeters long, laying all that rice end-to-end would stretch 9.75 light years.
Ohhh it's an "at first" take? Thats kinda not how the meme works. I know the whole story, but that would normally have one person smiling, the other not.
Doesn't matter if you know or not. Nothing bad