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Because all the rice in his kingdom will not be sufficient to grant the wish. In fact he may not be able to find so much rice in all

the civilised world at that time. Dont believe it? look at the following table

# of squares	# of rice grains	# of squares	# of rice grains	# of squares	# of rice grains	weight of rice grains in Kgs	# of squares	weight of rice grains in Kgs	# of squares	weight of rice grains in Kgs
1	1	11	1024	21	1048579		31	5360	41	5488640
2	2	12	2048	22	2097152		32	10720	42	10977280
3	4	13	4096	23	4194304		33	21440	43	21954560
4	8	14	8192	24	8388608		34	42880	44	43909120
5	16	15	16384	25	16777216		35	85760	45	87818240
6	32	16	32768	26	33554432		36	171520	46	175636480
7	64	17	65536	27	67108864	335	37	343040	47	351272960
8	128	18	131072	28	134217728	670	38	686080	48	702545920
9	256	19	262144	29	268435456	1340	39	1372160	49	1405091840
10	512	20	524288	30	536870912	2680	40	2744320	50	2810183680

So you can see by the time you reach the 50th square a staggaring amount of 2.8 billion Kg of rice will be needed, proceeding further to the 64th square you can calculate the amount of rice needed. Surely it would not have been possible for the King to grant such a wish, probably even today it would not be been possible.

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