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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consider using isequalwithequalnans (isequaln) against NaN instead of isequal against 'NaN' in test 7.
n=-1 ???
how to place negative amount of 'wheat' on a chessboard?
the prob is gd but the test suites are unnecessarily jumbled up.
Removed the cases with negative quantities. Everyone should be able to solve the problem now.
Is test 4 incorrect?
@ChrisR, Yes it was incorrect, and has been corrected.