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- From: hinz@picard.med.ge.com (David Hinz Mfg 4-6987)
- Subject: Re: Skittles commercial
- Message-ID: <1992Aug18.115056.12636@mr.med.ge.com>
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- References: <Aug.15.12.38.23.1992.12198@remus.rutgers.edu>
- Date: Tue, 18 Aug 92 11:50:56 GMT
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- Chris Long (clong@remus.rutgers.edu) wrote:
- : In article <1992Aug10.163022.12987@dg-rtp.dg.com>,
- : banksd@hydra.rtp.dg.com writes:
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- : > I saw a commercial for Skittles candies, where they are
- : > trying to figure out the number of "different combinations"
- : > of Skittles. Their final answer is remarkably small -- only
- : > six digits -- for a combinatorial property of a bag full of
- : > candy. And as I recall, it wasn't very divisor-rich either.
- :
- : A friend of mine claims that the number is 371,292. Now, how did
- : they arrive at it?
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- Just my cynical guess, but probably some marketing pinhead came up with a
- 'good sounding number'.
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- Dave Hinz - Opinions expressed are mine, not my employer's. Obviously.
- hinz@picard.med.ge.com
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