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Monday, June 28, 2004

Bookworms -- A Brain Teaser

Reading through and editing blogs reminds me of an old brain teaser I faced years ago as a child.

Here's the problem, as best as I can re-create it from memory:

Imagine you have a twelve volume set of books sitting in order on the bookshelf. Each 400 page volume is exactly the same size: the covers are each .25" thick and 400 pages is .75" thick.

So if a bookworm begins eating on page one of volume one and, following a straight line, continues eating until she reaches the last page of the final volume, how far has she traveled?

The answer may surprise you.

3 Comments:

Blogger YBother said...

Simple enough: my legion of loyal readers is still small enough for it to be acceptable for me to receive email notifications of postings. They do not, however, conveniently identify which entry was commented upon.

I noticed the template also excludes the dates of posted comments. I'm wondering whether I can easily fix that.

Did you notice how the template added July below June in the Archives column? I thought that was a surprising choice.

Hope you're enjoying my scribblings. I have a draft entry in the works that uses your HTML sample, tyvm.

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