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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 8 points 5 months ago (1 children)

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:

[–] zaphod@sopuli.xyz 3 points 5 months ago

I think there exist a lot of different versions, my 7th grade maths teacher explained it using rice.