Re: Lenny's 1965 Mahler 1 Posted

Terry Marsh <tmarsh@xxxxxxxxxxx> appears to have caused the following
letters to be typed in news:v46dnS_Oo9IhnYLeRVn-og@xxxxxxxxxxxx:

> Here's an explanation that I saw elsewhere and thought was an excellent
> simplification:
>
> I write 3 random numbers on a piece of paper. Then I add those together
> and write that sum on another piece of paper. I put the sum in the file
> cabinet and leave the paper with 3 numbers on my desk. Later you come in
> and put a cup of coffee down on the paper on my desk. The bottom of the
> cup is wet and it obliterates one of the 3 numbers so that I can no
> longer read it. I go to the file cabinet, retrieve the piece of paper
> with the sum, and compute the difference between the original sum and
> the two numbers I still can read. I now have the original three numbers.
>
> With one extra number I can retrieve any one missing number of the
> original three. That's the basic idea.

Thanks all for the explanations. I gave up math after calculus, so this
sort of thing is a tad beyond me.

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