Hello Miles!

03 Jan 05 06:20, you wrote to me:

 MM>> Err .. Fred felt guilty about not saving money, so he opened a
 MM>> savings account and put a small sum at the end of the first two
 MM>> weeks.

 MM>> Then Freda, his wife, found the deposit book and blew her top
 MM>> over his lack of a saving plan.

 MM>> Fred now agreed to put in each week a deposit equal to the sum of
 MM>> the previous two weeks' deposits.

 MM>> On week 13 he put in $1000.   What were his first 2 payments ?

 BS>> Just me or is it a bit tricky?

 MM> Of course - anything else automatically explodes when posted to
 MM> MENSA !!

Hehe! :)

 MM> It might help if you've read "The De Vinci Code", anything by
 MM> Fibonacci or stuff about the Golden Ratio  ...  but just modelling
 MM> it can crack the problem...

Yes it may take some time.. Else I'm a programmer, so maybe I could make a
program which solves the mistery. :)

Bo


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