 Sessa requested that he might be allowed one grain of wheat for the first square on the chess board, 2 for the second, 4 for the third, and so on, doubling continually, to 64, the whole number of squares. Now, supposing, a pint to contain 7680 of these...  Rational arithmetic - Page 210by Sarah Porter - 1852 - 263 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Pliny Earle Chase - Arithmetic - 1848 - 244 pages
...interest ? 25. Sysla, the reputed inventor of the game of chess, is said to have asked as a reward, one grain of wheat for the first square on the chess-board, two for the second, and so on in geometrical progression. What would have been the amount of his reward, there being 64 squares on... | |
 | John Bonnycastle - 1851 - 314 pages
...r, this last expression will become delighted with the invention, that he bid him ask what ho would as a reward for his ingenuity : upon which Sessa requested...first square on the chess-board, two for the second, four for the third, and so on, doubling continually to 64, the whole number of squares : now, supposing... | |
 | Horace Mann - 1851 - 384 pages
...Gazette. 134. Bysla, the reputed inventor of the game of chess, ia said to have asked as a reward, one grain of wheat for the first square on the chess-board, two for the second, and sO on in geometrical progression. What would have been the amount of his reward, there being 64 squares on... | |
 | J L. Ellenberger - 1854 - 338 pages
...? 2. Sessa, an Indian, having first discovered the game of chess, showed it to his Prince, Sheram, who was so delighted with the invention that he bid...be allowed one grain of wheat for the first square, two for the second, four for the third, &c., doubling continually to 64, the whole number of squares.... | |
 | C W. Thornhill - 1854 - 228 pages
...his prince, who was so delighted with it, that he promised him any reward he might ask ; on which he requested that he might be allowed one grain of wheat for the first square, two for the second, four for the third, and so on, doubling it continually to 64, the number of squares... | |
 | Horace Mann, Pliny Earle Chase - Arithmetic - 1857 - 388 pages
...Gazette. 134. Sysla, the reputed inventor of the game of chess, is said to have asked as a reward, one grain of wheat for the first square on the chess-board, two for the second, and so on in geometrical progression. What would have been the amount of his reward, there being 64 squares on... | |
 | Horace Mann, Pliny Earle Chase, Phiny Earie Chase - Arithmetic - 1857 - 394 pages
...Gazette. 134. Sysla, the reputed inventor of the game of chess, is said to have asked as a reward, one grain of wheat for the first square on the chess-board, two for the second, and so on in geometrical progression. What would have been the amount of his reward, there being 64 squares on... | |
 | Charles Hutton - Mathematics - 1860 - 1020 pages
...showed it to his prince, who was so delighted with it, that he promised him any reward he should ask; on which Sessa requested that he might be allowed one...of wheat for the first square on the chess-board, 2 for the second; 4 for the third, and so on, doubling continually to 64, the number of squares. Now,... | |
 | Henry Cuyler Bunner - 1883 - 430 pages
...this come to pass? There was a royal fool of history who once carelessly agreed to give his favorite one grain of wheat for the first square on the chessboard, two for the second, four for the third, and so on. When the computation was made, he found that the granaries of a dozen... | |
 | 1898 - 388 pages
...by the inventor of the game of chess, if the old legend is to be believed. He asked as his reward a grain of wheat for the first square on the chess-board, two for the second, four for the ihird, sixteen for the fourth, etc. The delighted monarch for whom the game had been invented... | |
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