Registered: Nov 2000
Location: Maximum Security twilight home for cats
Re: "Each tree has 56 oranges."
quote:
Originally posted by netroM
"If eight slaves pick them equally, then how much would each slave pick?"
Is there an exponential output in productivity multiplied by beatings?
Jan-10-2012 08:00
jester
[enigma within a enigma]
Registered: Oct 2003
Location: The End of Elsewhere by Taras Grescoe
God bless America.
Last edited by jester on Jan-10-2012 at 11:00
Jan-10-2012 10:54
Arbiter
Naked Power Organ
Registered: May 2002
Location:
What the fuck? The problem doesn't even specify whether the slaves pick all the oranges on each tree. What if some of the oranges aren't ripe? What if the slaves are lazy and/or incompetent? This is madness.
Jan-10-2012 17:00
Halcyon+On+On
Liebchen
Registered: Sep 2004
Location: midcoast
Minorities are just low-hanging fruit for the picking.
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