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2936. Exponential Growth

title text: Karpov's construction of a series of increasingly large rice cookers led to a protracted deadlock, but exponential growth won in the end.

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3 panel comic.

1. Black hat says "Exponential growth is very powerful" to No hair.

2. Zoom in to Black hat and a drawing of a chess board with little ovals in the squares, 1 in the first, 2 in the second, 4 in the third, 8 in the fourth. Black hat says "A chessboard has 64 squares. Say you put one grain of rice o the first square, then two on the second, then four, then eight, doubling each time"

3. Black hat is standing at a table pouring rice onto it. There are sacks of rice next to the table. Buzz cut is walking away from the table. Inset text: If you keep this up, your opponent will resign in frustration. It's called Kasparov's grain gambit. Nearly impossible to counter.

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