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Title: Number of balls in a bag Post by archau on Dec 30th, 2007, 1:10pm We have balls numbered 1,2,3,4,5,..... and a bag At time 0.9 secs we put ball 1 in the bag At time 0.99 secs we remove ball 1 and push in balls 2,3 At time 0.999 sec we remove ball 2 and push in balls 4,5,6 .... How many balls are in the bag at time 1.0s? |
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Title: Re: Number of balls in a bag Post by towr on Dec 30th, 2007, 1:33pm [hide]I dare you to name the lowest numbered ball that you didn't remove.[/hide] |
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Title: Re: Number of balls in a bag Post by ThudanBlunder on Dec 30th, 2007, 4:40pm http://www.ocf.berkeley.edu/~wwu/cgi-bin/yabb/YaBB.cgi?board=riddles_hard;action=display;num=1117490596 |
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Title: Re: Number of balls in a bag Post by temporary on Jan 22nd, 2008, 9:46pm [hide]Countably infinite.[/hide] |
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Title: Re: Number of balls in a bag Post by towr on Jan 23rd, 2008, 12:52am on 01/22/08 at 21:46:03, temporary wrote:
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Title: Re: Number of balls in a bag Post by temporary on Jan 23rd, 2008, 6:19pm The lowest number ball that wasn't removed is |
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Title: Re: Number of balls in a bag Post by towr on Jan 24th, 2008, 12:16am on 01/23/08 at 18:19:37, temporary wrote:
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