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Bananas (Posted on 2006-08-28) Difficulty: 2 of 5
100 monkeys have together 1600 bananas. Show that at least four monkeys have the same number of bananas.

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re(3): My morning breakfast (sanity is restored) | Comment 10 of 11 |
(In reply to re(2): My morning breakfast (sanity is restored) by Steve Herman)

Yes,  that was one of my results too,  but then I started thinking that I can only hand real bananas to the real monkeys and imaginary bananas to the imagined monkeys. That would make 1.5 real bananas per real monkey and 0.75 imaginary bananas for the imagined monkeys. Together this makes 1.5+0.75i.

Maybe it is a true paradox... Will this shatter mathematics? I shall ask my imaginary friend Bertrand Russell, he's got experience in these matters.


  Posted by JLo on 2006-09-01 13:30:05

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