There was once a king in India who was a big chess enthusiast and had the habit of challenging wise visitors to a game of chess. One day a traveling sage was challenged by the king. The sage having played this game all his life all the time with people all over the world gladly accepted the Kings challenge. To motivate his opponent the king offered any reward that the sage could name. The sage modestly asked just for a few grains of rice in the following manner: the king was to put a single grain of rice on the first chess square and double it on every consequent one. The king accepted the sage’s request.
Having lost the game and being a man of his word the king ordered a bag of rice to be brought to the chess board. Then he started placing rice grains according to the arrangement: 1 grain on the first square, 2 on the second, 4 on the third, 8 on the fourth and so on.
Following the exponential growth of the rice payment, the king quickly realized that he was unable to fulfill his promise because on the twentieth square the king would have had to put 1,000,000 grains of rice. On the fortieth square, the king would have had to put 1,000,000,000 grains of rice. And, finally, on the sixty-fourth square, the king would have had to put more than 18,000,000,000,000,000,000 grains of rice which is equal to about 210 billion tons and is allegedly sufficient to cover the whole territory of India with a meter thick layer of rice.
It was at that point that the sage told the king that he doesn’t have to pay the debt immediately but can do so over time. And so the sage became the wealthiest person in the world.
/inb4 all cured vs infected etc stats I don't care. The death curve is exponential. That's all that matters.
James Flores
As someone who has played chess nearly his entire life and has a 2000+ classical lichess rating (for what that is worth on this cesspool of a shithole site), this is a beautifully written post Germanbro.
Kayden Ward
In the short run it may be exponential, but in the long run its logistic growth, it will start to flatten out as the number of unaffected people grown smaller
Xavier Price
this reminded me of my middle school when our teacher explained exponential growth. thnx Hans
John Edwards
>and has a 2000+ classical lichess rating I unironically want to know what this is.
Cooper Long
Given the still rising death rate of 15% what you are saying implies a whole fuckload of dead people.
>As someone who has played chess nearly his entire life and has a 2000+ classical lichess rating (for what that is worth on this cesspool of a shithole site
I like how you brought that up even though you don't need any knowledge of chess to actually understand the story
Sebastian Turner
In the version I heard, he was executed for being greedy
David Bell
Lichess is an online chess website Rating is kind of like a number to judge your gameplay 800 - n00b 1400 - okayish 2200 - good 3000+ - advanced 5000 - grandmaster
Luis Bell
It means he's a virgin.
Julian Myers
lichess ratings are fake news. in my experience chess.com ratings are more accurate
Jose Hall
I wonder where chess ELO hell is.
Oliver Peterson
IT'S OVER BY EASTERN
Jonathan Morris
Poo King didn't know factorial.
Jose Torres
the higher the rating the less likely you are to have children
Joseph Jackson
Disease follows a logistic curve you retard. Fun story though.
Jonathan Murphy
>18,000,000,000,000,000,000 WTF 18,000,000,000,000,000,000 PEOPLE JUST DIED TO CORONA VIRUS TODAY! AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!
Ryan Stewart
Compound interest is fun and nice old story to get the point across for those who haven't heard it.
Blake Long
my mental health cant take much more of this someone just coof on me and get it over with already my god
Camden Howard
>and then both the king and the sage shat in the street
>double rice every field >17 in 5th field this triggers my OCD
Brandon Morales
I will say at a certain point the virus will hit diseconomies of scale and become too burdensome for it to spread further for it's own sake.
Xavier Morris
Probably 1400. I would bet there are retard mistakes at that level that would fuck up conventional gameplay
Tyler Hall
You lying leafs will get the rake
Nicholas Turner
No but there's already a billionty people with coronavirus they just don't show any symptoms and they show negative on tests this will all blow over by next week!
More like exponentially increasing testing. Also, the death rate is getting smaller exponentially.
Benjamin Scott
I find it funny that the nothingburger fags think the death count right now is an indication. The low deaths and increasing infection rate should be the sign of a real problem. A virus can't spread effectively if it kills its host.
John Cox
He didn't invent it dumbass. It's lietrally in every 1st year calculus textbook you fucking retard
Gabriel Martin
you told the legend wrong you idiot. we talk about india here. what really happened was that the king had to take a shit on the first square, two shits on the second and so on. the king died quickly of dehydration and bleeding asshole syndrom. the sage took his place as king and his first order was that every citizen had to shit on the street to honour the dead king. order became habit, habit became tradition. indians keep up the tradition of shitting outside to this day.
Hudson Morris
Have sex incel. Having respect for beauty in life is the ultimate red pill. I bet you're a disgusting filthy Palestinian subhuman living in Israel. Go get shot by the IDF.
Levi Murphy
>18,000,000,000,000,000,000 cases of Coronavirus confirmed
>Lichess Also the king actually just beheaded the sage for being too greedy
Jason Lewis
bump great reference
Dylan Flores
You can't expect me to read that much. At least greentext it
William Reyes
1 in 4 people have herpes. No one cares, cause it's not likely to kill you.
Thomas Richardson
Yea, but why did you have to point out a pointless fact about yourself? That what girls do when they have nothing to contribute. >Ohhhh I love your guitar drawing, as a guitar player myself I can tell it's a really good drawing
Thomas Bailey
>facebook post tier story
OP have you ever put any thought into killing yourself because you’re a massive faggot?
The growth rate of the virus is exponential, but it also changes depending on several factors. The r0 is estimated to b approximately 2.5 in the wild with no prevention. With social distancing the r0 drops and the growth becomes much slower.
Eventually once about 60% of everyone has got it the R0 starts to drop and eventually drops below 1.0, once this happens its just a matter of time before the virus basically becomes burnt out in the population.
Chase Nguyen
b r u u h I have a 1900 in lichess and I'm an absolute fucking retard. Lichess points are inflated by like 500 to make you feel good. You're not Magnus bro
Jayden Williams
A wise man who owned an inn would offer a challenge to those who stayed at his residence. Rather than accept gold as payment, the man would give them the option to either put 50 lilypads in their ass at once or put 1 lilypad in their ass the first day, 2 on the second, 4 on the third, etc.
A traveling member of the nobility visited the inn and offered gold, however, the inn keeper stayed firm. "I do not take gold, however, you must choose between the two options of putting a lilypad in your ass. Either put 50 lilypads in their ass at once or put 1 lilypad in their ass the first day, 2 on the second, 4 on the third, etc."
The noble man smiled and said surely. Since I will be only be staying 1 day I will put one lilypad in my ass. The wise man furled his brow. "But then how will you learn about exponential growth?"
The noble man, putting the lilypad in his ass turned to him and said "Why on earth do you think a mathematical model would apply perfectly to our physical world. Your book smarts will be the death of you old man."
death rate is exponential. that's all that counts.
Alexander Johnson
Is this your first time hearing about exponential growth or something
Jose Reed
Dude, that's still good. Well done.
Bentley Adams
This, if you don’t fit the testing criteria they won’t do it (here in Australia it’s flu symptoms plus overseas travel, or contact with someone with overseas travel) They will only test a suspected case of community transmission if the person is hospitalised with severe pneumonia
Ethan Bell
rice sucks, the sage was a dumb faggot that shoulda asked for 1 steak per square instead. what an idiot
Joseph Sanchez
Its even starting to look like that when you switch the scale to logarithmic which is fucking terrifying.
>death rate is exponential. that's all that counts. No because there's an upper limit on deaths once everyone has already been infected. At that point the actual lethality of the virus that counts.
Christopher Mitchell
>they played chess and the guy won a bunch of rice now he’s rich The moral of the story is every human on the planet will die several times due to the flu.
