Comic #4241: the-other-side-of-the-chessboard-2

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Panel 1: A king offered a wise man one wish. Wise Man: "I want a single grain of rice on the first square of this checkerboard, two on the next square, four on the third square…"

Panel 2: King (happily): "Only a little rice? It shall be done!"

Panel 3: Caption: By the 20th square, the king had realized the trick. King: "Dammit. This is why nobody likes wise men."

Panel 4: Caption: The king's guards seized the wise man. Wise Man: "What?! But I tricked a capricious monarch out of all his wealth! Everything should be going great for me!"

Panel 5: Caption: The wise man was put to death in the most mathematically insulting way possible. King: "You will be put into a random spiral, which we will say is a Fibonacci spiral." Wise Man: "Nooooo!"

Panel 6: Person 1: "Professor, what's the moral of this story?" Professor: "Stay away from applied mathematics."

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