Tim writes:
Some say 533 and a third.
This is correct if the camel eats bananas continuously, as opposed to discretely. Starting with 3,000 bananas, the camel can deposit 2,000 bananas 200 miles from his starting point. He can then deposit 1,000 bananas another 333 1/3 miles from that point. There now remain 466 2/3 miles to go, and bananas to eat, leaving the camel with 533 1/3 bananas upon reaching the other side. If the camel eats bananas in discrete quanta, we lose the fractional banana. -- Sponsor the DES Analytic Crack Project http://www.cyberspace.org/~enoch/crakfaq.html
What was your point in posing this with the answer at the bottom. This problem shows up in the math newsgroups and is not an interesting CP topic.
--Tim May
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