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Monday, November 02, 2009
Long Grain
In a moment of manic madness, I worked out that there are approximately 479,180 grains of rice in a 10kg bag of long grain rice. Now consider this... if you were to place 1 grain of rice on the first square of a chess board, 2 grains on the second square, 4 grains on the third square and so on, doubling the number of grains for every square... 10kg's of rice would be found on the 20th square. The 24th square would have over 8 million grains of rice. By the time you got to the 64th square, there would be 18,446,744, 073,709,551, 615 grains of rice. That's 18 quintillion!
Why do I wonder about such things? Because I am fascinated by the power of multiplication. Imagine... what if every disciple of Jesus discipled two others... who discipled two others... who discipled two others...
