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- From: gerardo@ferris.cray.com (Gerardo Cisneros)
- Newsgroups: sci.math
- Subject: Re: Problematic smurfs!
- Keywords: smurfs
- Message-ID: <1992Aug31.104237.12397@walter.cray.com>
- Date: 31 Aug 92 15:42:37 GMT
- References: <94952@bu.edu>
- Organization: Cray Research, Inc.
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- In article <94952@bu.edu> spacefox@acs.bu.edu (Godfrey Degamo) writes:
- >[...]
- > A group of 1000 smurfs wear either a red or blue hat on their head.
- >[...]
- >find:
- > The exact amount of smurfs that rise.
- > (Hint: This number will be greater than one.)
- > The color of the hats of the smurfs that rise.
- >[...]
-
- Several followups have come up with an answer of three red-hatted smurfs
- standing up. That can't be right, however, because everybody knows that
- smurfs _all_ wear white hats, except Papa smurf, who wears a red hat.
- :-) :-) :-)
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