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- From: ralph@cbnewsi.cb.att.com (ralph.winslow)
- Subject: Re: Riddle -
- Organization: AT&T
- Date: Sun, 22 Nov 1992 18:10:13 GMT
- Message-ID: <1992Nov22.181013.5138@cbnewsi.cb.att.com>
- References: <By0Msr.7uu@newcastle.ac.uk> <By3525.BIt@ucunix.san.uc.edu>
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- In <By3525.BIt@ucunix.san.uc.edu> hollenbk@ucunix.san.uc.edu (Chris Hollenbeck) writes:
- >In <By0Msr.7uu@newcastle.ac.uk> S.E.Rigden@newcastle.ac.uk (Simon Rigden) writes:
- >> The following is a riddle I saw the other day. Some people get it straight
- >>away but mathematicians seem to have difficulty - tell it to one and see.
- >> ZK : Well, I can tell you that there are 64 heads and 186 legs?
- >> Is it possible to work out the answer to the mans question from this?
- >> -Simon "I really should get round to creating a .sig" Rigden
- >> -(S.E.Rigden@ncl.ac.uk)
- >There is no real answer because the number of legs are split among two- and
- >four-legged animals. One solution I came up with was 35 two-legged animals
- >and 29 4-legged animals. This is the one that I think is the best solution.
- >
- >--CJH
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- Very good, but where do they bury the survivors??
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