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[Jayjay]

I get the humor but not the math. He should have received $20.80.

The first square has 1 penny, second square has two pennies, third square has two pennies, fourth square has two pennies, ...

 

[bigfield]

Nm

 

[jonatha]

He only did one row, and it should be 2^8-1 = 255 pennies.

 

[Atheos]

I get the humor but not the math. He should have received $20.80.

The first square has 1 penny, second square has two pennies, third square has two pennies, fourth square has two pennies, ...

Well that makes sense. The other way would have as well though. $20.80 would have been just as funny, since it would have been the maximum amount possible under the circumstances.

 

[beero1000]

The first square has 1 penny, second square has two pennies, third square has two pennies, fourth square has two pennies, ...

Well that makes sense. The other way would have as well though. $20.80 would have been just as funny, since it would have been the maximum amount possible under the circumstances.

The implied value is actually $184,467,440,737,095,516.15, referencing the  wheat and chessboard problem. Using the ambiguity of "and so on" to only give him $1.27 is the joke.

 

[bilby]

I would have given him $0.96.

 

[spikepipsqueak]

nm

 

[Keith&Co.]

I would have given him $0.96.

That's how my first calculation came out...

 

[Atheos]

My first thought was 1+2+3+4+5....+64. $20.80. Once beero1000 pointed it out I recalled seeing some adaptation of the Wheat and Chessboard Problem years ago (sometime in the 70's) but had forgotten about it. I've forgotten a lot about the 70's.

 

[fta]

 

[Learner]

Car Exhaust Grill

 

[Iznomneak]

 

[Loren Pechtel]

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Your mother must have been really ignorant if she believed it was a rib poking into her!

 

[ZiprHead]

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Looks more like it was a pork chop.

 

[Thomas II]

 

[Thomas II]

 

[Potoooooooo]

 

[James Brown]

 

[Thomas II]

 

[bilby]