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Cigars (Fun) Logic

12/13/2010 5:57 AM

Because cigars cannot be entirely smoked, Megatron, who collects cigar butts can make a cigar to smoke out of every 5 butts that he finds. Today, he has collected 25 cigar butts. How many cigars will he be able to smoke?

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12/13/2010 6:12 AM

6

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12/13/2010 6:44 AM

Four fifths of a cigar.

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12/13/2010 6:57 AM

Six-and-a-bitbutt.

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12/13/2010 7:08 AM

Me Tink u got it.

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12/13/2010 11:23 AM

I'm with you.
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12/13/2010 11:33 AM

Come on, chaps - it ain't worth a GA. Anyway, kramarat beat me to it (all but the butt).

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12/13/2010 11:38 AM

It'll skew your GA to post ratio.

It'll give the whiners over at that other thread something to do.
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12/13/2010 11:40 AM

Ok, anything for a laugh.

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12/13/2010 3:08 PM

I left that other thead when I got my first GA, you big baby
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12/13/2010 3:19 PM

Oh, I get it, at-a-boy GA's are fine if they're going your way........Interesting

Now you know........I get my GA's the hard way.......by counting cigars!

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12/13/2010 4:08 PM

Well,

I'd go back if I were you, cause you don't have any GA's that I can see.

And, in case you haven't figured it out, anybody who has been here for a while and understands the forum, realizes that GA's give no indication of civility nor intelligence.

I look forward to ignoring you in the future.
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12/13/2010 5:55 PM

No you won't... It's in your blood.

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12/13/2010 6:56 PM

LMAO!!!!! Good call

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12/13/2010 12:33 PM

That ain't worth a GA. Now the guests are going to think I'm one of the privileged and protected few, just getting atta boy GA's.

Besides, stinky pete is probably the only one that knows the true answer.

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Shouldn't it be 5 and all but the butt of the sixth?
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12/13/2010 8:03 AM

He smokes 7/8ths of one re-made cigar. After that he gets killed by a crowd of people severely nauseated by the stench from his old cigar butts. His carcass is removed by the EPA and sent to a toxic waste containment site. Most members of the crowd are treated for smoke inhalation and spend the rest of their lives as part of a lung cancer study conducted by the Centers for Disease Control.

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12/13/2010 8:33 AM

Sounds right. We have big tobacco subsidized by the taxpayers, selling carcinogenic substances to Joe-6-pack.

Then we have CDC totally supported by tax payers studying the cause of his death.
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12/13/2010 11:02 AM

Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar.

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12/13/2010 11:08 AM

René Magritte

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12/13/2010 11:14 AM

Of core snot; it is only a picture of a pipe.

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12/13/2010 1:17 PM

Here's some cigar logic:

Assuming that the cigars are perfectly cylindrical, what is the maximum number of cigars that can be arranged so that each touches every other?

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12/13/2010 2:34 PM

If I understand the question, and the cigars are the same size and shape, and the reference is from a single plane (cigars are not 'piled up'), I find no solution larger than three.

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12/13/2010 7:20 PM

I think you're right for coplanar. I had three dimensions in mind but didn't say so explicitly.

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12/13/2010 7:29 PM

I'll stick me neck out & go 4 (in 3D).

[In 1D it would be 2 (end-to-end, in a line), so I guess it follows.]

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12/13/2010 7:37 PM

In 1D, why not 3? In a triangle?
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12/14/2010 1:20 AM

'Cos you can't draw a triangle in 1D.

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12/14/2010 1:29 AM

Don't try to confuse me with reality.
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