Author: Dan Honeycutt
Date: 12:21:40 05/17/04
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On May 17, 2004 at 13:53:49, Dieter Buerssner wrote: >On May 17, 2004 at 02:25:34, Tony Werten wrote: > >>On May 16, 2004 at 17:12:12, Dieter Buerssner wrote: >> >>>On May 16, 2004 at 14:28:48, Marc Bourzutschky wrote: >>> >>>>Max Euwe: 4,147,200 >>>>Noam Elkies: 8,294,400 >>>>Paul Epstein: 5,317,600 >>>>Marc Bourzutschky: 5,149,368 >>> >>>Dieter Bürßner: 4,665,582 >>> 2 euros. Dan H. > >Two brothers decide, to sell their herd of sheep. For each sheep they get as >many Euro, as there where sheep alltogether (say, they had 100 sheep, the would >get 100*100 Euro). The price is paid in 10 Euro bills, and the remaining amount >in coins of 1 Euro. They start to share the money. The older brother gets the >first bill, the younger the second bill, and so on. At the end the younger >brother complains: "You got the first and the last one, and have more then me". >"Ok", the older brother replied, "you get all the coins". "Sorry, but still you >got more money of it than me", said the younger. "Well, I will give you a check, >so that we both will have earned the same amount". What amount of money was >written on the check? > >Regards, >Dieter
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