单选题
There was once a millionaire who loved money more than
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in the world. He didn"t know
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how much he had. So he sent a little girl to count all his money for him.
It took the little girl six days to
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all the money. When she told the millionaire that he had forty-two
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dollars, he was wild with
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and asked, "How
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do you want?" He thought that because she was only a child, he could cheat her
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taking very small
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.
The little girl said, "Well, I worked for six days, so I think you
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pay me for six days. Give me two pennies for the first day. Each day after that, just give me the amount you gave me
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, multiplied by itself." The millionaire thought that in this way he would only have to give her a very
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dollars. What a
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little girl! So he immediately had his lawyer
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up a contract, fearing that she would change her
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.
For the first day, the millionaire paid her two pennies, and for the second day, two pennies times two pennies,
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four pennies.
Each day after that, he had to give her the amount he had given her the day before, multiplied
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itself. And on the sixth day, the
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millionaire had to give the clever little girl all his money.
How is it
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the girl could have all the greedy (贪婪的) millionaire"s money?
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you are interested in it, you may try to
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this maths problem.