One Grain of Rice: A Mathematical Folktale by Demi Over and Under the Pond a bacteriologist and pathologist

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One Grain of Rice: A Mathematical Folktale by Demi Over and Under the Pond a bacteriologist and pathologistLong ago in India, there lived a raja who believed that he was wise and fair. But every year he kept nearly all of the people's rice for himself. Then when famine came, the raja refused to share the rice, and the people went hungry. Then a village girl named Rani devises a clever plan. She does a good deed for the raja, and in return the raja lets her choose her reward. Rani asks for just one grain of rice, doubled every day for thirty days. Through