Path: csiph.com!x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net!usenet.pasdenom.info!news.albasani.net!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Frederick Williams Newsgroups: sci.logic,rec.puzzles,sci.math.num-analysis,comp.programming,sci.chem Subject: Re: the hourglass problem Date: Tue, 03 Jan 2012 13:22:40 +0000 Organization: albasani.net Lines: 13 Message-ID: <4F030120.DE3636E2@btinternet.com> References: <7f48dfe5-ca54-49ca-8cb9-5ae686e96f92@c42g2000prb.googlegroups.com> <4F01E6F4.912FE850@btinternet.com> <7c2dnTN6lJrr3Z_SnZ2dnUVZ_jWdnZ2d@vex.net> <86bc343e-06fa-4c58-889d-a7b6857a74d8@b20g2000pro.googlegroups.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: news.albasani.net ijMzc0VYhEp+tXi0TSmR0df195ym41u+jXiWzfeUiy6j68x9p4gcEn66SZigyqx6ccEe4kk2RruUIo6bL3L1yg== NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 3 Jan 2012 13:22:39 +0000 (UTC) Injection-Info: news.albasani.net; logging-data="xAHWImcxj7jwobt+Ukok3ho6erhpNMWt24uK72Ouhd+im/OVnsCGxZmsmPfXCawiRUsT1j2W1M8gnvKS8kaBw6dqYKqnxNFw0Ed2PBWI3JOYth0u+xbGrclXRHb5HtjT"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@albasani.net" X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.8 [en] (Windows NT 5.0; U) X-Accept-Language: en Cancel-Lock: sha1:wwwDGiwz7RhKImPkNxmqixwDiJs= Xref: x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net comp.programming:1197 RichD wrote: > Do you remember the story of the mythical > chem student, who was given a barometer, and > asked to determine the height of a buildng? Yes. I heard the late Clement Freud recount it as if it were fact. Truth or myth, it's an entertaining story. -- When a true genius appears in the world, you may know him by this sign, that the dunces are all in confederacy against him. Jonathan Swift: Thoughts on Various Subjects, Moral and Diverting