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From: ags@pucc-i (Seaman)
Newsgroups: net.puzzle
Subject: Balls in the bowl.
Message-ID: <203@pucc-i>
Date: Tue, 14-Feb-84 19:03:58 EST
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Posted: Tue Feb 14 19:03:58 1984
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It's time to get the ball rolling on a new discussion...

You see before you a large empty bowl, two machines marked A and B, and a
*huge* supply of balls.

1.  At one minute before noon, machine A places 100 balls into the bowl.
    Machine B removes one ball from the bowl.

2.  At 1/2 minute before noon, machine A places 100 balls into the bowl.
    Machine B removes one ball from the bowl.
    .
    .
    .
N.  At 1/N minute before noon, machine A places 100 balls into the bowl.
    Machine B removes one ball from the bowl.
    .
    .
    .

It is now noon.  How many balls are there in the bowl?
-- 

Dave Seaman
..!pur-ee!pucc-i:ags

"Against people who give vent to their loquacity 
by extraneous bombastic circumlocution."