The game of chess was invented a few hundred years ago in India. The story has it, that the ruler of the area was so enchanted with the game, that he called the inventor to his palace, and asked him to name a gift. The seemingly humble man asked the ruler to put a grain of rice on the first square of the chessboard, two grains of rice on the second and so on, doubling the grains each time until all 64 squares of the chessboard were filled. The ruler was thinking about a full sack of rice and happily agreed. I didn't count it myself, but there are 32,000,000 grains of rice in a short ton (2,000 lbs). So do the calculation in Python and make a modern day comparison. Assume that a 50 foot rail car can carry 50 tons of rice. Write a program that would calculate how long the train would have be to carry the inventor's request? First Calculation: How many grain of rice? Second Calculation: How many tons of rice? Third Calculation: How many train car will be needed? BONUS(3pts) If your numbers have the commas in the correct places.
The game of chess was invented a few hundred years ago in India. The story has it, that the ruler of the area was so enchanted with the game, that he called the inventor to his palace, and asked him to name a gift.
The seemingly humble man asked the ruler to put a grain of rice on the first square of the chessboard, two grains of rice on the second and so on, doubling the grains each time until all 64 squares of the chessboard were filled.
The ruler was thinking about a full sack of rice and happily agreed. I didn't count it myself, but there are 32,000,000 grains of rice in a short ton (2,000 lbs). So do the calculation in Python and make a modern day comparison. Assume that a 50 foot rail car can carry 50 tons of rice.
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First Calculation: How many grain of rice?
Second Calculation: How many tons of rice?
Third Calculation: How many train car will be needed?
BONUS(3pts) If your numbers have the commas in the correct places.
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