X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 10c7e7,b2d59af78b44d574 X-Google-Attributes: gid10c7e7,public X-Google-Thread: f4928,b2d59af78b44d574 X-Google-Attributes: gidf4928,public X-Google-Thread: f4ab8,b2d59af78b44d574 X-Google-Attributes: gidf4ab8,public X-Google-Thread: f996b,b2d59af78b44d574 X-Google-Attributes: gidf996b,public X-Google-Thread: 108353,b2d59af78b44d574 X-Google-Attributes: gid108353,public X-Google-Thread: 112aef,b2d59af78b44d574 X-Google-Attributes: gid112aef,public X-Google-Thread: 10ed79,b2d59af78b44d574 X-Google-Attributes: gid10ed79,public From: Cyber Denizen Subject: Re: <><><><>Can ANYONE do this Math Problem, Please?<><><><> Date: 1996/08/22 Message-ID: <321CAC4C.60E@lex.infi.net>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 175772473 references: <4uveh4$lmu@tofu.alt.net> <4v2ek2$guh@news.cis.okstate.edu> <321BCFAE.1BAE@nfld.tdsnet.com> content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii organization: InfiNet mime-version: 1.0 newsgroups: alt.society.high-school,alt.teens,alt.teens.poetry.and.stuff,alt.poetry,alt.graphics,alt.ascii-art,alt.graphics.pixutils x-mailer: Mozilla 2.0 (Win95; U) Rich Lagerstedt wrote: > > Steve Ellis wrote: > > > > In article Cindy > writes: > > > > >Why am I even responding to this? Oh well, the real answer is 2^20, it's > > >2^20+1 if you include yourself... > > > > Actually, I think its 2^21 -1. Remember, at iteration 1, you tell 2 people, so > > the total is (2 + 1) 3. Iteration 2, the 2 new people from i1 each tell 2 > > people, so you have (4 + 2 + 1) 7. And so on. > > > > How on earth did you pick this list of newsgroups to post to? > > If everyone who reads this post will send me $5, and each one > of them will send me $5, and each one... and so on, I will be > more than happy to actually COUNT the number of $5 bills I > receive, and therefore be able to post the EXACT CORRECT > NUMBER of readers..... > > Then I can spam all the newsgroups and tell them that it > REALLY DOES WORK!!!!! > > So, please start sending those fins...... $5 $10 $15 $20... $10000...$100000...Who the hell cares?! Money is money, but these are just a bunch of bullshit scams. -- Your are just a shadow on the wall where the paint is peeling. defcom5@lex.infi.net