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[-] NigelFrobisher@aussie.zone 15 points 3 months ago

That parable about the emperor asking for double the number of grains on each successive square of a chess board would be fucked of rice grains were that big.

[-] Korhaka@sopuli.xyz 6 points 3 months ago

Not like its easy with rice the size of rice

Yeah, that's like... 250 billion tons of rice. That's over 30 tons of rice per person in this world. Not sure this much rice even exists on this planet.

[-] thethunderwolf@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 3 months ago

And then when trying to place the 33rd batch they ended up with a negative number of grains somehow

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