Editing Exponential growth (section)

===Rice on a chessboard===
{{see also|Wheat and chessboard problem}}
According to legend, vizier Sissa Ben Dahir presented an Indian King Sharim with a beautiful handmade [[chessboard]]. The king asked what he would like in return for his gift and the courtier surprised the king by asking for one grain of rice on the first square, two grains on the second, four grains on the third, and so on. The king readily agreed and asked for the rice to be brought. All went well at first, but the requirement for {{math|2<sup>''n''−1</sup>}} grains on the {{mvar|n}}th square demanded over a million grains on the 21st square, more than a million million ({{aka}} [[Orders of magnitude (numbers)#1012|trillion]]) on the 41st and there simply was not enough rice in the whole world for the final squares. (From Swirski, 2006)<ref name=Porritt-2005>{{cite book|last=Porritt|first=Jonathan|title=Capitalism: as if the world matters|year=2005| publisher=Earthscan| location=London| isbn=1-84407-192-8|page=49}}</ref>

The "[[second half of the chessboard]]" refers to the time when an exponentially growing influence is having a significant economic impact on an organization's overall business strategy.