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Green #116 The Rice Gambit
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European Chris
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nasixi wrote:
After trying a couple of obvious answers using my calculator, I used excel, simply doubling the number each time. Unless I've done something wrong, my answer came out as

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18446744073709500000


But that didn't work.

Then again, I've had a few drinks, so my typing might have suffered!


That's juat a rounding issue-six sided square has the right answer above.
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wokerbee
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 		Has anyone actually had the answer accepted as i am having trouble.
Thanks Shocked

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18446744073709551615


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 		You should find that to be the right answer Twisted Evil

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wokerbee
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 		Thanks i will try when my card is unlocked which should be sometime tonight i hope. I just had the last digit wrong Embarassed .

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Superience
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 		I realise noone has posted here for a while but just made a bit of a discovery which would have made everyones life much easier.

If you enter

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2^64-1


it comes up as correct.[/spoiler]

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 		Aw, no, I go to all the trouble of working it out, and they accept that!?! That's just cheating Smile
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Elhorranna
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 		Just how much WOULD that Rice weigh?
spugmeistress wrote:
hmm i wonder how much that many grains of rice would weigh...

to be fair, rice might not be flavoursome but i bet he'd get a fair bit out of sticking it on ebay Wink

rach =)


On the assumption that since Sissa is in India and King Shirham most likely offered him Basmati Long Grain Rice as his payment .... And of course there were enough grains in the world to collect of that promise.... Sissa would be one RICH RICE MAN!!!

The Total Weight would be 7,378,697,629,483,820.646 QUADRILLION (1000 billion) KILOS


These are 20 KILO bags.... He could Ship and Sell 368,934,881,474,191 bags on Ebay
THE RICHES, THE RICHES!!!
1000 Grains of Basmati Rice weighs 2.5g
You can purchase Basmati Rice on eBay for 2.4GBP per 1kg

17,708,874,310,761,170 QUINTILLION POUNDS of Profit!!!
That's 32,584,328,731,800,552 quintillion US Dollars.... Crazy – just Crazy... I wanna be king of all the rice in the world. Wink

PostPosted: Sat Jun 10, 2006 9:19 pm
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Factor41
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 		But!...
Doesn't rice have a shelf life. Surely if you've got that much rice to sell in a short time, the demand is never going to be up to the supply, so your price is gonna tumble.

Lucky then, that in the actual story, the request was for that much, "or an equivalent value", so the dude just took King Wotsit's kingdom, and maybe a few of his prettier wives, and was done with it. This is way back remember, so he'd have had to set up eBay before he got to selling. I don't think even their profits are into the quadrillions of dollars yet.

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