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An inventor of the chess board suggested a reward of one grain of wheat for first square, 2 grains for the second, 4 grains for the third, and so on, doubling the amount of the grains for subsequent squares. How many grains would have to be given to the inventor ? (There are 64 squares in the chess board).

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