Welcome all! To the FreeRice (II) New Year's Challenge!

Due to the astounding success of the first challenge, a new one was envisioned for the New Year since the accede the first. What you are viewing is it here.
The challenge will run for 2 weeks, from 5 January 2009 20:00 to the 19th January 2009 20:00 New Zealand Daylight Time (UTC+1300).

I would also like to proudly announce that Uli is working with me to provide the daily statistics and helping me with the logistics of this thread in general. Give her the full credit for the statistics that will be provided.

A link to FreeRice is here. The above and below images are also linked directly to FreeRice, clicking on the images or the link preceding will take you directly to FreeRice.

Other options to donate, excluding English vocabulary also exist, such as:
French
German
Italian
Spanish
Plus many other non-language options.

With the astounding success with the first thread, in which we together donated 1,207,980 grains of FreeRice! I want to up the ante and have a goal of 2,000,000 grains! Starting from scratch.

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To keep people motivated, there will be 5 stars available and up for grabs, here they are:
- Platinum Contributor. 500,000 grains.
- Diamond Contributor. 250,000 grains.
- Gold Contributor. 100,000 grains.
- Enhanced Contributor. 50,000 grains.

- Contributor of the day. Awarded to the most deserving.

I'm not expecting anyone to reach that milestone of 500,000 grains, but, who knows!

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This thread replaces:
FreeRice (I) Donation Challenge - 1,207,980 grains donated.

I would to myself pledge a guaranteed 50,000 grains, with an extra 25,000 if we reach the milestone of 2,000,000. Plus 10,000 for every 100,000 after that. To start off, I have already donated 5,000 grains. I hope to see you here and donating! (Remember if you have donated, please, please tell us how much you donated by posting in this thread! I do not accept PM's on the basis of false statistics and accusations of cheating.)

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I would like to leave you tonight with this old legend:

...When the creator of the game chess showed his invention to the ruler of the country, the ruler was so pleased that he gave the inventor the right to name his prize for the invention. The man, who was very wise, asked the king this: that for the first square of the chess board, he would receive one grain of rice, two for the second one, four on the third one and so forth, doubling the amount each time. The ruler, who was not strong in math, quickly accepted the inventor's offer, even getting offended by his perceived notion that the inventor was asking for such a low price, and ordered the treasurer to count and hand over the wheat to the inventor. However, when the treasurer took more than a week to calculate the amount of wheat, the ruler asked him for a reason for his tardiness. The treasurer then gave him the result of the calculation, and explained that it would be impossible to give the inventor the reward. The ruler then, to get back at the inventor who tried to outsmart him, told the inventor that in order for him to receive his reward, he was to count every single grain that was given to him, in order to make sure that the ruler was not stealing from him...

Sum up:

Note the fact that the first "half" of the chessboard contains 4,294,967,295 grains of rice, while the 64th square contains an astounding 9,223,372,036,854,775,808 grains of rice, or more than a billion times as much on the entire first half of the chessboard. In total, on the entire chessboard there would be exactly 18,446,744,073,709,551,615 grains of rice.

I hope to see every single person that views this thread donate. Please... remember the fact that the total amount of money needed to stop world poverty is estimated at US$200,000,000,000 a year. Donating rice is free...

Kind Regards & Thank You to all contributors that will be,
Luke.

wanna bump this to the top... it is so much fun; i'm studying the languages.
Here is the link again, copied from Luke:
[the] link to FreeRice is here.
Thank you kitties

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keep telescopic listening devices aimed at the Zenith of the Horizon

Thanks for the bump Sukilena.... In all the excitement you forgot to post your contribution.

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Pluto will always be a planet to me.

Seti Ambassador
Not to late to order an Anni Shirt

You have now donated
2000 grains of rice.

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What you do today you will have to live with tonight

4000 grains with my coffee.

Getting ready for breakfast, and did some more.

You have now donated
2100 grains of rice.

10k

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BOINC WIKI

4000 more with lunch.

Thanks for the bump Sukilena.... In all the excitement you forgot to post your contribution.

... often advised to be invisible, i am at 10,840 after 2 days (it would be a meal for me, i wonder if i can collect it) ... should i be hitting the restart button every day?
still excited
~: }

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keep telescopic listening devices aimed at the Zenith of the Horizon

3,800 grains for me this evening (multiplication) - but I'll have to stop now 'cause I've got eye strain.

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Thanks for the bump Sukilena.... In all the excitement you forgot to post your contribution.

... often advised to be invisible, i am at 10,840 after 2 days (it would be a meal for me, i wonder if i can collect it) ... should i be hitting the restart button every day?
still excited
~: }

You have to have your FreeRice preferences set to "restart my grain count everytime I visit Freerice." Otherwise me & Uli will have problems with the stats (such as calculating how much rice you donated today) and you won't be eligible for the Largest Single Donation....

Regards,
Luke.

10,000 grains from me.

EDIT: Thanks for the bump and thanks Andy.

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- Luke.

37,300 from son and myself.
Will have more later, wife is working on some too.... :D

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37,300 from son and myself.
Will have more later, wife is working on some too.... :D

Hi Gonad the Destroyer!
Just a question regarding your pic and points:
How is it possible that the counter shows 37.300 when on the pic only appear seven bowls of rice valued for 1000 each, which makes 7.000 and three small plates with 100 each, which makes 300 and adding all up comes to a total of 7.300 grains?
I must say that I never got so far. Maybe reaching the 10 thousand barrier, it starts again with 1.000 grains bowls? Maybe the webmaster did not plan ahead for heavy crunchers like SETI members??!!??!!!
I think the question is pertinent, on behalf of the pic provided.
Cheers!

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Another 2,000 in the pot, but too tired to do any more. Sorry, I'm giving it my best when I can.

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Thats a good question.......

By the looks of my other screenies, it starts over at 10k.
I will watch next time...

37,300 from son and myself.
Will have more later, wife is working on some too.... :D

Hi Gonad the Destroyer!
Just a question regarding your pic and points:
How is it possible that the counter shows 37.300 when on the pic only appear seven bowls of rice valued for 1000 each, which makes 7.000 and three small plates with 100 each, which makes 300 and adding all up comes to a total of 7.300 grains?
I must say that I never got so far. Maybe reaching the 10 thousand barrier, it starts again with 1.000 grains bowls? Maybe the webmaster did not plan ahead for heavy crunchers like SETI members??!!??!!!
I think the question is pertinent, on behalf of the pic provided.
Cheers!

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It does restart at 10,000, and every 10,000 after that, it just keeps the counter going up and up. I noticed that myself the other day.

Thats a good question.......

By the looks of my other screenies, it starts over at 10k.
I will watch next time...

37,300 from son and myself.
Will have more later, wife is working on some too.... :D

Hi Gonad the Destroyer!
Just a question regarding your pic and points:
How is it possible that the counter shows 37.300 when on the pic only appear seven bowls of rice valued for 1000 each, which makes 7.000 and three small plates with 100 each, which makes 300 and adding all up comes to a total of 7.300 grains?
I must say that I never got so far. Maybe reaching the 10 thousand barrier, it starts again with 1.000 grains bowls? Maybe the webmaster did not plan ahead for heavy crunchers like SETI members??!!??!!!
I think the question is pertinent, on behalf of the pic provided.
Cheers!

15000 grains

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Before 10,000


at 10,000


Don't count this, I'm still adding more. LOL

37,300 from son and myself.
Will have more later, wife is working on some too.... :D

Hi Gonad the Destroyer!
Just a question regarding your pic and points:
How is it possible that the counter shows 37.300 when on the pic only appear seven bowls of rice valued for 1000 each, which makes 7.000 and three small plates with 100 each, which makes 300 and adding all up comes to a total of 7.300 grains?
I must say that I never got so far. Maybe reaching the 10 thousand barrier, it starts again with 1.000 grains bowls? Maybe the webmaster did not plan ahead for heavy crunchers like SETI members??!!??!!!
I think the question is pertinent, on behalf of the pic provided.
Cheers!

GREETINGSmy bowl empties after every 100 points
today's KITCHEN SCIENCE REPORT: this is neat --
i just counted all this out -- it took a couple of hours.
3020 GRAINS of a small grained WHITE RICE (possibly basmanti) weighs 56.34 grams or 2 ounces and MAKES ABOUT 182 GRAMS, or about 6.5 ounces OF COOKED RICE. This would fill your tummy for a while... I pray that you also have clean water and vitamins.
Now i am going to go put some ghee and honey on my experiment and have breakfast!

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keep telescopic listening devices aimed at the Zenith of the Horizon

Only 7260 before my brain stopped working.

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Pure mathematics is, in its way, the poetry of logical ideas.

Albert Einstein

12,000 today's total.