[Rhodes22-list] not much chatter new subject "apples"

[Mark Kaynor]

Can't be 4-2-1 because he had to give the last guard 1/2 plus 1 - 1/2 of 2
plus 1 = 2, so he'd have none left - he had one left at the end.

Mark

----- Original Message -----
From: "Michael Meltzer" <mjm@michaelmeltzer.com>
To: <rhodes22-list@rhodes22.org>
Sent: Friday, September 13, 2002 1:30 PM
Subject: Re: [Rhodes22-list] not much chatter new subject "apples"


> should never ask a computer programmer a binary question :-)
> 2^7 or 128 64 32 16 8 4 2 1
>
> MJM
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Todd Tavares" <sprocket80@mail.com>
> To: <rhodes22-list@rhodes22.org>
> Sent: Friday, September 13, 2002 1:11 PM
> Subject: [Rhodes22-list] not much chatter new subject "apples"
>
>
> > Not much chatter today so I will ask a riddle...if it's ok.
> >
> >
> >      A boy went into an orchard to steal some apples.  On the way out he
passed seven guards which stopped and questioned him.
> Each time he was stopped by one of the seven guards,  he had to bribe the
guard with half of the remaining apples plus one.  If
> after stopping for the seven guards, he left the orchard with only one
apple,  how many did he start with?
> >
> >
> > Todd
> >
> > PS  There is a solution. some may get it right off...it took me about 10
minutes to figure it out.
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