This camel and banana thing has gone WAY out of cypherpunk lane. This sounds like material for a 'how-to-feed-a-camel-over-long-exposure-to-desert-heat newsgroup' which, surpassingly, just might exist... not? :- ) prove me wrong :- ) About a year ago there was this program about cars on the Discovery Channel... forgot it's detail... anyway, this weird prof. and a bunch of his student wanted to prove that you can make cars with anything... so they got banana peals, cut them into slices and made forms out of them. This did not create the essence of a car, the engine, however they did make the chassis into a very nice bright yellow :- ) ... OUT OF BANANA PEALS <:- ) So next time you eat breakfast, eat a camel ! .. WAIT... I mean a banana ! :- ) Regards, Jan Dobrucki Bill Stewart wrote:
At 02:21 PM 10/5/98 +0200, Raccoon wrote:
On Mon, 5 Oct 1998, Reeza! wrote:
At 11:12 PM 10/4/98 +0200, Anonymous wrote:
At 12:59 PM 10/3/98 -0400, Michael Motyka wrote:
There is a desert which is 1000 miles across. There is a camel who can carry 1000 bananas maximum. The camel eats 1 banana per mile travelled. The camel has a total of 3000 bananas to begin with. What is the maximum number of bananas that the camel can get across to the other side uneaten?
Are we stipulating that the camel will travel in a straight line? Or will it meander a bit, following the path of least resistanct through the dunes?
Since we are looking for the best possible result (=the most bananans moved to the other side), we must assume that the path of least resistance equals a straight line. This may be improbable, but it is not impossible! Remember that this is maths, and that we're looking for the best possible limit.
No, this isn't maths, this is camels, and they'll give you as much resistance as they feel like, and *you* may be looking for the most bananas moved across the desert, but the camel's perfectly happy to sit here and eat all the bananas here, crossing 0 miles of desert, or dump you 50 miles out in the desert and come back and eat the bananas.
But other than the PERL book, what's it got to do with cypherpunks? Just that bananas are related to Bill Clinton?
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