{"id":7617,"date":"2026-09-12T11:48:08","date_gmt":"2026-09-12T11:48:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/myanmarmuslim.news\/en\/?p=7617"},"modified":"2026-09-12T11:48:09","modified_gmt":"2026-09-12T11:48:09","slug":"the-story-the-rice-grain-riddle-at-the-king-mindons-court-caught-kin-wun-mingyi-u-kaung","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/myanmarmuslim.news\/en\/2026\/09\/12\/the-story-the-rice-grain-riddle-at-the-king-mindons-court-caught-kin-wun-mingyi-u-kaung\/","title":{"rendered":"The Story: The Rice Grain Riddle At The King Mindon\u2019s Court Caught Kin Wun Mingyi U Kaung"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">That childhood riddle about exponential growth\u2014whether told through the story of the wealthy merchant\u2019s clever daughter in the <em>Kalay Journal<\/em> or the court of King Mindon\u2014highlights just how deceiving geometric progression can be!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">While staying at his royal pavilion, King Mindon issued a challenge to pass the time:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>&#8220;Whoever can start from one grain of rice and eat its doubled amount thirty times, I shall bestow upon him a horse and a piece of pasoe (royal cloth). But if he fails to finish it all, he must water the royal garden.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A young treasury clerk named Maung Kaung (who would later become the famous minister <strong>Kinwun Mingyi U Kaung<\/strong>) jumped at the opportunity. As historian Nyo Mya noted, U Kaung was eager to please the king, so he impulsively declared he could do it without calculating the math first.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">The Mathematical Trap<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Like the merchant who laughed at his daughter&#8217;s request for &#8220;1 cent doubled daily&#8221; only to lose his fortune two months later, U Kaung vastly underestimated how fast doubling grows:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>The Math:<\/strong> $1 + 2 + 4 + 8 + \\dots + 2^{29} = 2^{30} &#8211; 1$<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Total Grains:<\/strong> <strong>1,073,741,823 grains<\/strong> (over 1.07 billion grains of rice)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Volume:<\/strong> At roughly 768,000 grains per traditional Burmese <em>tin<\/em> (basket), the total comes out to <strong>1,398 baskets of rice<\/strong>!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Realizing he had lost and was faced with the daunting penalty of hand-watering the vast royal grounds, King Mindon offered him a way out: compose an impromptu poem admitting his mistake on the spot.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">English Translation of U Kaung\u2019s Poem<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Aiming to win the prize of a pasoe and a horse,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I promised to eat the rice doubled thirtyfold\u2014<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Ah, what a painful mistake I have made!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">For the rest of my life, I shall dread doing this again;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In this single turn, my luck went askew,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Leaving me to carry water for the royal garden.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Oh, my graceful, fair, and sweet companion\u2014<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">My beloved Sin Chan Mae,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Please come and help me out!<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>(Note: Sin Chan Mae was U Kaung&#8217;s wife, whom King Mindon had arranged for him to marry.)<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Historical Reflection<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Your observation about the contrast in sharpness between generations of leadership is a poignant one. 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