>>> Miles Maxted on Re: Su-do-ku ? 

 MM> One of the oldest conumdrums he came up with involves an Arab 
 MM> family whose head dies,  leaving one half of his 17 camels to his 
 MM> eldest son, one sixth of them to his middle son and one ninth to 
 MM> his youngest son.

 MM> After the funeral and wake,  the family are deep in argument over 
 MM> the will and desparate for ways of cutting up one or more camels 
 MM> without killing them.

 MM> Then a wise man rides into their oasis,  listens to their plight, 
 MM> meditates over the food and drink they give him ... and neatly 
 MM> divides up the herd to fulfill the will - in complete camels.

 MM> Satisfied with his solution,  he rides off again into the desert 
 MM> in search of bigger challenges ... leaving which son with how many 
 MM> camels ?

He adds his camel, gives 9 to the eldest son,
3 to the middling son and 2 to the youngest son.

9 + 3 + 2 = 14 and of the remaining 4, the wise guy gets one, 
leaving 3 camels for ..., oh what the heck, he takes all four.

 MM> Apparently, according to Gardner, this problem dates back some 
 MM> 5,000 years to the ancient Arab mathematicians ... and is 
 MM> satisfyingly neat.

 ARS> DOS is good only because Windows is worse, IMHO. ;)

Absolutely correct!!!  Another a national secrete is
Democrats are good only because Republicans are worse.

 MM> C/PM and Assembler are better ... if you've got a Z80 chip 
 MM> handy...

No, but there's a Z100 disk jocky station here that's crap.

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