peregrinning ([identity profile] peregrinning.livejournal.com) wrote in [personal profile] bunnyjadwiga 2007-12-11 07:13 pm (UTC)

Here are two tellings of the fable.
http://mathforum.org/~sanders/geometry/GP11Fable.html
http://www.soylentred.net/2007/03/rice-rice-baby
I have seen it in many places. "The Fable of the Caliph and the Chessboard" is a typical name, but there are many others.

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