The inventor of the chessboard requested a the following compensation: one grain of rice for the first square, two for the second, four for the third, eight, then sixteen and so on doubling every time. The King granted this request, thinking the inventor was asking for a pittance, but he soon realized that he was outsmarted. The amount of rice exceeded all possible grain reserves!
2 to the power of 64 is something like 64 Quintillion (a Billion Trillions)
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