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Grains of Wheat on a Chess Board A children’s fairy tale tells of a clever elf who extracted from a king the promise to give him one grain of wheat on a chess board square today, two grains on an adjacent square tomorrow, four grains on an adjacent square the next day, and so on, doubling the number of grains each day until all 64 squares of the chess board were used. How many grains of wheat did the hapless king contract to place on the
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