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daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Anonymous)
Sun Oct 4 17:34:48 1998

Date: Sun, 4 Oct 1998 23:12:56 +0200
From: Anonymous <nobody@replay.com>
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Reply-To: Anonymous <nobody@replay.com>

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?









  





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