1998-10-05 - Re:

Header Data

From: Petro <petro@playboy.com>
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Message Hash: ce50bb09b6e30ec2388a38b6a51c9afa6079be6345fdc3b80b3ad8a5ce38cd34
Message ID: <v04011708b23ed9ea2c4a@[206.189.103.244]>
Reply To: <199810042112.XAA11806@replay.com>
UTC Datetime: 1998-10-05 07:36:39 UTC
Raw Date: Mon, 5 Oct 1998 15:36:39 +0800

Raw message

From: Petro <petro@playboy.com>
Date: Mon, 5 Oct 1998 15:36:39 +0800
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Subject: Re:
In-Reply-To: <199810042112.XAA11806@replay.com>
Message-ID: <v04011708b23ed9ea2c4a@[206.189.103.244]>
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain



At 4:02 AM -0500 10/5/98, Reeza! wrote:
>At 11:12 PM 10/4/98 +0200, Anonymous wrote:
>>At 12:59 PM 10/3/98 -0400, Michael Motyka wrote:
>>>> There is a desert which is 1000 miles across. There is a camel who can
>>carry
>>>> 1000 bananas maximum. The camel eats 1 banana per mile travelled. The
>camel
>>>> has a total of 3000 bananas to begin with. What is the maximum number of
>>>> bananas that the camel can get across to the other side uneaten?
>>>
>>>My camels don't understand/can't eat fractional bananas.
>>
>>Why are bananas quantized in the presense of camels?  Is this
>>a quantum-computing thing?
>>
>
>Are we stipulating that the camel will travel in a straight line?
>Or will it meander a bit, following the path of least resistanct through
>the dunes?

	If the camel is going to meander, following some perceived "path of
least resistence", then could it's back and forths be used as a source of
entropy?
--
petro@playboy.com----for work related issues. I don't speak for Playboy.
petro@bounty.org-----for everthing else.      They wouldn't like that.
                                              They REALLY
Economic speech IS political speech.          wouldn't like that.





Thread