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  3. From: clong@remus.rutgers.edu (Chris Long)
  4. Newsgroups: sci.math,rec.puzzles
  5. Subject: Re: Skittles commercial
  6. Message-ID: <Aug.15.12.38.23.1992.12198@remus.rutgers.edu>
  7. Date: 15 Aug 92 16:38:23 GMT
  8. References: <1992Aug10.163022.12987@dg-rtp.dg.com>
  9. Followup-To: sci.math
  10. Organization: Rutgers Univ., New Brunswick, N.J.
  11. Lines: 17
  12.  
  13. In article <1992Aug10.163022.12987@dg-rtp.dg.com>,
  14. banksd@hydra.rtp.dg.com writes:
  15.  
  16. > I saw a commercial for Skittles candies, where they are
  17. > trying to figure out the number of "different combinations"
  18. > of Skittles. Their final answer is remarkably small -- only
  19. > six digits -- for a combinatorial property of a bag full of
  20. > candy. And as I recall, it wasn't very divisor-rich either.
  21.  
  22. A friend of mine claims that the number is 371,292.  Now, how did
  23. they arrive at it?
  24. -- 
  25. Chris Long, 265 Old York Rd., Bridgewater, NJ  08807-2618
  26.  
  27. "In a study of schoolboys, an educator discovered a correlation between size
  28.  of feet and quality of handwriting.  The boys with the larger feet were,
  29.  on the average, older."        Wallis & Roberts, _The Nature of Statistics_
  30.