The-other-side-of-the-chessboard

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the-other-side-of-the-chessboard

Title text: The important thing is that the lesson will last throughout your angry embittered lifetime.

Votey

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Transcript

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I have trained you in mathematics, son. Now that you are going to college, I present you with two options:

Option one: I pay for your entire college

Education.

Option two: I take this chessboard, and give you one penny on the first square, two pennies on the

Option two! Option two!

Second square, and so on.

Then he gave me $1.27

Votey Transcript

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You're Lucky it's not $0.96 Jop all

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Discussion

I don't get it. The chessboard only has 7 squares?

the math here works out if it's two pennies on every square except the first Smbcwiki-admin (talk) 22:30, 15 January 2024 (EST)