Problem 1174. Wheat on a chessboard pt 2
If a chessboard were to have wheat placed upon each square such that x grains were placed on the first square and each successive square after had y times the amount of grains as the square before. How many grains of wheat would be on the chessboard at the finish?
Assume the chess board is n by n squares.
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David
on 7 Jan 2013
consider using isequalwithequalnans (isequaln) against NaN instead of isequal against 'NaN' in test 7.
Jean-Marie Sainthillier
on 12 Mar 2013
n=-1 ???
Asif Newaz
on 12 Jan 2020
how to place negative amount of 'wheat' on a chessboard?
the prob is gd but the test suites are unnecessarily jumbled up.
Dyuman Joshi
on 10 Apr 2021
Removed the cases with negative quantities. Everyone should be able to solve the problem now.
ChrisR
on 5 May 2021
Is test 4 incorrect?
Dyuman Joshi
on 5 May 2021
@ChrisR, Yes it was incorrect, and has been corrected.
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