You have one hundred marbles, and an infinite supply of trash bags. If you were to put the marbles in the bags, so that no two bags had the same amount of marbles, what is the most bags that you could use?

(In reply to Nesting Allowed? by TomM)

if nesting is not allowed, there can still be a bag with zero, correct?

Making it 14.
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Posted by Hank on 2003-04-29 10:08:00