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Anonymous <nobody@replay.com>Mon, 5 Oct 1998 01:35:09 +0800
> At 12:59 PM 10/3/98 -0400, Michael Motyka wrote:
> >> There is a desert which is 1000 miles across. There is a camel who can
> carry
> >> 1000 bananas maximum. The camel eats 1 banana per mile travelled. The camel
> >> has a total of 3000 bananas to begin with. What is the maximum number of
> >> bananas that the camel can get across to the other side uneaten?
> >
> >My camels don't understand/can't eat fractional bananas.
>
> Why are bananas quantized in the presense of camels? Is this
> a quantum-computing thing?
>
Can the camel increase his miles/banana ratio if he dries out the
peels and smokes them??
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Mark Hahn <mhahn@tcbtech.com>Mon, 5 Oct 1998 08:10:07 +0800
The base problem is interesting and I think ted would like it. I don't
think smoking bananas will make is any easier to solve the problem.
-MpH
At 08:30 AM 10/5/98 +0200, Anonymous wrote:
>> At 12:59 PM 10/3/98 -0400, Michael Motyka wrote:
>> >> There is a desert which is 1000 miles across. There is a camel who
can carry
>> >> 1000 bananas maximum. The camel eats 1 banana per mile travelled. The
camel
>> >> has a total of 3000 bananas to begin with. What is the maximum number of
>> >> bananas that the camel can get across to the other side uneaten?
>> >
>> >My camels don't understand/can't eat fractional bananas.
>>
>> Why are bananas quantized in the presense of camels? Is this
>> a quantum-computing thing?
>>
>Can the camel increase his miles/banana ratio if he dries out the
>peels and smokes them??
>
>
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