[103842] in Cypherpunks
Re:
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Reeza!)
Mon Oct 5 05:26:50 1998
Date: Mon, 05 Oct 1998 19:02:13 +1000
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
From: Reeza! <howree@cable.navy.mil>
In-Reply-To: <199810042112.XAA11806@replay.com>
Reply-To: Reeza! <howree@cable.navy.mil>
At 11:12 PM 10/4/98 +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?
>
Are we stipulating that the camel will travel in a straight line?
Or will it meander a bit, following the path of least resistanct through
the dunes?
Reeza!
"I'm desperately trying to figure out why kamikaze pilots wore helmets."
- Dave Edison
