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https://xkcd.com/2936

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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.

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[-] laughterlaughter@lemmy.world 3 points 7 months ago

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

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