Oh. Oh Darn!
At 05:50 PM 7/15/06 -0500, you wrote:
As I remember, the person requesting this favor was quickly executed once
the king realized what the price would actually be...
Dan
Malcolm Stebbins wrote:
Hey Mike!
Glad to read your recent posts, and I have to admit playing with numbers
can be fun. However, as with the Malthusian doctrine - so called -
many other factors are often dismissed or never recognized as affecting
an outcome. I'd argue that chief among these is the notion that such
replicants are otherwise unchallenged in their multiplicative success;
first, how long do they live? do they live as long when crowded? do they
multiply as readily - successfully - under other self-induced conditions?
under various host conditions? is their replication sexual or asexual or
both? does a "strain" weaken and become less competent over time within
the same host environment? is there a spore phase? what about
syncsitia(sp?)? do we care?
I still remember the story about a Sufi master who did a king a favor and
refused any payment. The king insisted; the master refused again; the
king insisted even more insistently and the master of course gave
in. Here's what he said:
On your chess board, Oh, generous King, place one grain of rice upon the
first square, two upon the second, four upon the third, eight upon the
fourth and so on until you have put the correct number of rice grains on
every one of the squares." As you pointed out, two to the sixty-third
power is a fairly large number, and it exceeds all the rice grains
available then or now.
Hmmmm, Malcolm
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