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Subject: Re: Chess Math problem

Author: Bruce Moreland

Date: 13:28:19 01/16/98

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On January 16, 1998 at 15:23:02, Bruce Moreland wrote:

>
>On January 16, 1998 at 14:49:37, William Dozier wrote:
>
>>The problem is this: If someone played a game of chess W/B at the age of
>>15 and played 24 hrs a day 365 days a yr and that person reach the age
>>of eighty, how maney games that has played? Another problem say if some
>>start counting at the age 10, begenning with one, and counted at the
>>rate of a thousand per hr, 24 hrs. per day, 365 days a yr. and at the
>>age that person stop counting, what number would he be at? The total
>>amount of numbers? Any takers?/Have a nice day William.
>
>A pocket calculator solves this second problem in a few seconds.

And you can figure out the other arithmetic problem by dividing your
answer to the second question by the time you think a game would take to
play.

None of this means anything, of course.

bruce



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