Propositiones ad Acuendos Juvenes/Problems/13 - De Rege et de Eius Exercitu/Historical Note

== Historical Note on by : Problem $13$: De Rege et de Eius Exercitu == This is seen to be an example of the Wheat and Chessboard Problem, taken to not quite as great an extreme.

and, in their translation of , give 's complete solution, which consists of documenting each of the powers of $2$ in turn:


 * After the first stop there were $2$ men; after the second $4$; after the third $8$; after the fourth $16$; ... after the twenty-ninth $536870912$; after the thirtieth $1073741824$.

goes on to note that in some of the historical manuscripts that propagate this problem, a number of them have incorrect values.