{"version":"1.0","provider_name":"Rainbow Dash Network","provider_url":"http:\/\/rainbowdash.net\/","type":"link","title":"Zenneth (zennx)'s status on Wednesday, 06-Apr-16 01:52:42 UTC","author_name":"Zenneth (zennx)","author_url":"http:\/\/rainbowdash.net\/zennx","url":"http:\/\/rainbowdash.net\/notice\/4125773","html":"@<span class=\"vcard\"><a href=\"http:\/\/rainbowdash.net\/user\/7119\" class=\"url\" title=\"Firestorm\"><span class=\"fn nickname mention\">firestormdangerdash<\/span><\/a><\/span> theres an old tale of a man who conned another man with a chess board, by asking to be paid in grains of rice, he's get 1 grain on sq 1, 2 on the 2nd 4 on the 3rd 8 on the 4th, and so on, and the guy accepted, but if you do the math, you realize that at the end of it all, you get 18,446,744,073,709,551,615 grains of rice.<br \/>so once I proposed to pay a kid I was babysitting at the time in by paying him in like that &quot;one coin on the 1st square, 2 on the second and so forth&quot; if he cleaned his room<br \/>but the way it is said like that doesn't increase exponentially, it increases only by ONCE CENT PER SQUARE<br \/>so on a standard 64 sq board that equals 127 cents"}