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#1 2014-09-21 16:57:11
- bobbym
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Bitter snails
There are 15 different snails and I want to distribute them between 4 people. Each person has to get at least one snail. How many ways are there to do this?
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#2 2014-09-21 19:09:36
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Is it compulsory that every snail has to go to a person?
If yes,
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#3 2014-09-21 22:47:56
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Re: Bitter snails
Hi Agnisjom
I do not know what the answer is, but that one is not correct.
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#4 2014-09-21 23:00:45
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'And fun? If maths is fun, then getting a tooth extraction is fun. A viral infection is fun. Rabies shots are fun.'
'God exists because Mathematics is consistent, and the devil exists because we cannot prove it'
I'm not crazy, my mother had me tested.
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#5 2014-09-21 23:32:24
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Re: Bitter snails
Hi;
In mathematics, you don't understand things. You just get used to them.
If it ain't broke, fix it until it is.
Always satisfy the Prime Directive of getting the right answer above all else.
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#6 2014-09-21 23:35:37
Re: Bitter snails
Unfortunately it gives
Why is the other idea not working?
'And fun? If maths is fun, then getting a tooth extraction is fun. A viral infection is fun. Rabies shots are fun.'
'God exists because Mathematics is consistent, and the devil exists because we cannot prove it'
I'm not crazy, my mother had me tested.
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#7 2014-09-21 23:40:33
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Re: Bitter snails
The number is much larger than that and you are stargating!
In mathematics, you don't understand things. You just get used to them.
If it ain't broke, fix it until it is.
Always satisfy the Prime Directive of getting the right answer above all else.
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#8 2014-09-21 23:46:11
Re: Bitter snails
I am what?
'And fun? If maths is fun, then getting a tooth extraction is fun. A viral infection is fun. Rabies shots are fun.'
'God exists because Mathematics is consistent, and the devil exists because we cannot prove it'
I'm not crazy, my mother had me tested.
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#9 2014-09-21 23:48:50
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Re: Bitter snails
Hyperspace is unpredictable. When you enter it your exit vector could be anywhere.-John Robinson
In mathematics, you don't understand things. You just get used to them.
If it ain't broke, fix it until it is.
Always satisfy the Prime Directive of getting the right answer above all else.
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#10 2014-09-22 00:11:17
Re: Bitter snails
Why should it be unpredictable? There is no hyperspace here.
'And fun? If maths is fun, then getting a tooth extraction is fun. A viral infection is fun. Rabies shots are fun.'
'God exists because Mathematics is consistent, and the devil exists because we cannot prove it'
I'm not crazy, my mother had me tested.
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#11 2014-09-22 00:13:50
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Re: Bitter snails
Can you determine a line with only one point?
In mathematics, you don't understand things. You just get used to them.
If it ain't broke, fix it until it is.
Always satisfy the Prime Directive of getting the right answer above all else.
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#12 2014-09-22 00:19:42
Re: Bitter snails
No.
'And fun? If maths is fun, then getting a tooth extraction is fun. A viral infection is fun. Rabies shots are fun.'
'God exists because Mathematics is consistent, and the devil exists because we cannot prove it'
I'm not crazy, my mother had me tested.
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#13 2014-09-22 00:21:54
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Re: Bitter snails
Correct! Nor can you get certainty with only one answer! You will forever be thrashing around with binomial this or binomial that.
In mathematics, you don't understand things. You just get used to them.
If it ain't broke, fix it until it is.
Always satisfy the Prime Directive of getting the right answer above all else.
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#14 2014-09-22 00:24:36
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LOL! Posts cannot contain only capital letters.
'And fun? If maths is fun, then getting a tooth extraction is fun. A viral infection is fun. Rabies shots are fun.'
'God exists because Mathematics is consistent, and the devil exists because we cannot prove it'
I'm not crazy, my mother had me tested.
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#15 2014-09-22 00:29:56
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Re: Bitter snails
What capitals?
In mathematics, you don't understand things. You just get used to them.
If it ain't broke, fix it until it is.
Always satisfy the Prime Directive of getting the right answer above all else.
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#16 2014-09-22 00:30:30
Re: Bitter snails
never mind.
'And fun? If maths is fun, then getting a tooth extraction is fun. A viral infection is fun. Rabies shots are fun.'
'God exists because Mathematics is consistent, and the devil exists because we cannot prove it'
I'm not crazy, my mother had me tested.
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#17 2014-09-22 00:36:01
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Re: Bitter snails
Post #13 stands.
In mathematics, you don't understand things. You just get used to them.
If it ain't broke, fix it until it is.
Always satisfy the Prime Directive of getting the right answer above all else.
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#18 2014-09-22 00:48:51
Re: Bitter snails
against what?
'And fun? If maths is fun, then getting a tooth extraction is fun. A viral infection is fun. Rabies shots are fun.'
'God exists because Mathematics is consistent, and the devil exists because we cannot prove it'
I'm not crazy, my mother had me tested.
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#19 2014-09-22 00:50:56
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Re: Bitter snails
Correct! Nor can you get certainty with only one answer! You will forever be thrashing around with binomial this or binomial that.
You are working like the guy who solved this problem. He only got one answer and I believe it is wrong. If you only have one answer you do not have any degree of certainty.
In mathematics, you don't understand things. You just get used to them.
If it ain't broke, fix it until it is.
Always satisfy the Prime Directive of getting the right answer above all else.
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#20 2014-09-22 00:52:55
- anonimnystefy
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Re: Bitter snails
Hi bobbym
I am getting
Here lies the reader who will never open this book. He is forever dead.
Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most. ― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Crime and Punishment
The knowledge of some things as a function of age is a delta function.
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#21 2014-09-22 00:55:30
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Re: Bitter snails
Hi;
In mathematics, you don't understand things. You just get used to them.
If it ain't broke, fix it until it is.
Always satisfy the Prime Directive of getting the right answer above all else.
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#22 2014-09-22 01:13:31
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Re: Bitter snails
Well:
and
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Here lies the reader who will never open this book. He is forever dead.
Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most. ― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Crime and Punishment
The knowledge of some things as a function of age is a delta function.
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#23 2014-09-22 01:22:20
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Re: Bitter snails
Hi;
In mathematics, you don't understand things. You just get used to them.
If it ain't broke, fix it until it is.
Always satisfy the Prime Directive of getting the right answer above all else.
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#24 2014-09-22 01:25:53
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Re: Bitter snails
Hi
Here lies the reader who will never open this book. He is forever dead.
Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most. ― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Crime and Punishment
The knowledge of some things as a function of age is a delta function.
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#25 2014-09-22 01:29:31
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Re: Bitter snails
In mathematics, you don't understand things. You just get used to them.
If it ain't broke, fix it until it is.
Always satisfy the Prime Directive of getting the right answer above all else.
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