Re: A question for Vladimir

On Jul 22, 11:18 am, Rich Webb <bbew...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Wed, 22 Jul 2009 07:54:39 -0700 (PDT), Clay <c...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:





On Jul 21, 9:07 pm, Jerry Avins <j...@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
If a chicken and a half lays an egg and a half in a day and a half,
how long does it take a chicken to lay an egg?

Jerry
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Interesting Question,

But I know from experience of when I let my chickens out of their coop
every morning that their numbers, the total number of eggs and the
number of eggs produced daily by each hen are all nonnegative
integers. Do we restrict the answer set for the puzzle to be
nonnegative integers?

I think that it's safe to assume that half of a chicken will lay exactly
zero eggs for the foreseeable future, notwithstanding the evidence of
Mike the Headless Chicken (who was at least 80% present).

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I don't know if that is safe to assume unless we are really down to
half of a chicken. Partial chickens have lived for months after having
their heads chopped off. You use an eyedropper to feed it in the neck!

Clay


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