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10/13/2008 10:07 AM

I have to give my dog medicine twice a day. She is a small dog so the dosage is 1/2 a pill AM and 1/2 PM. If I open a new bottle of 100 pills and break one, put the 1/2 back in the bottle, when does it change to be more likely to get a 1/2 pill than a whole pill. I think it is random whether I get a whole or half as I don't consciencly take a whole or a half each time, although I guess the half pills are closer to the top of the bottle. In other words I just shake a few pills into my hand grab one, put the others back. If the one I kept is 1/2 I put it in her food, if it is whole, I break it in half, give half and put the other half back in the bottle. I may not be smart enough to ask this question let alone read the answer. This is just what I thought would be a fun question, not homework, not important, just asking for the sake of asking. -- JHF

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10/15/2008 11:21 AM

Yep........rather androgenous if I do sayso meself.............not exactly leotards as in the days of yore. This effectively bridges the gender gap.

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10/15/2008 11:27 AM

Shows what I know - I always thought the "gender gap" was something girls had...

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10/15/2008 11:47 AM

Much as I'd like to posterity prevents me from going any deeper................!

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10/15/2008 3:40 PM

Concur - that's already too deep into the posterior for comfort...

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10/15/2008 7:20 AM

Hello Circuit Breaker

As they said up at the Bran Castle: We seem to have lost the Count.

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10/18/2008 12:27 PM

Back to the original question... If you fail to keep your dog on "the pill" properly then you might end up with two dogs. Thus, you break the pill in half, give one half to each dog and have 100% probability of getting a full size pill out of the bottle next time.

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