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Thread ID: 23254 2002-08-11 06:34:00 How do I repeat a calculation 1000 times Vince (406) Press F1
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70196 2002-08-13 08:22:00 Yep, 22/7. without paper, calculator or blackboard. :D Elwin Way (229)
70197 2002-08-14 04:11:00 I like the Dogbert cartoons. He had a stall selling half price lottery tickets "with nearly as good a chance of winning as full price ones". A customer looks at one and complains" "That's last week's." Dogbert: "And your point is?" Graham L (2)
70198 2002-08-20 15:29:00 > I have always been fascinated with the chessboard
> problem. But, I think you will find that it was
> rice, not corn...
>
> Peter
You'r right Peter, it was rice, and the process involved putting on each square, the number of the square TIMES the number of grains on the previous square; if memory serves. Vince,...another Canadian.
Vince (406)
70199 2002-08-21 03:57:00 Doubling does it. 2^63 is a BIG number. Graham L (2)
70200 2002-08-21 04:35:00 If 7 folds of the paper is correct & I believe it to be so. Then how come a Japanese Samurai sword, steel, gets folded many more times than 7 ??
Poppa John :)
Poppa John (284)
70201 2002-08-21 04:42:00 Totally different process. The steel is folded, hammered out flat, heated again and folded, hammered out ... The paper is getting thicker at each step. The steel becomes twice the thickness then is reduced to single thickness again repeatedly. It becomes homogenised. Graham L (2)
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