Wages: successive harvests from one grain of rice. Master has no fields left — Mythoi

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Wages: successive harvests from one grain of rice. Master has no fields left.

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Chinese Graham.

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Filed under Origin of chess. Inventor asks one wheat-grain for first square, two for the second, four for the third, eight for the fourth, etc. The king cannot pay.

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