tino@hou2f.UUCP (A.TINO) (03/19/86)
> Take a half a cup of tea, and a half a cup of coffee. > Take one tablespoon of the tea and mix it in with the coffee. > Take one tablespoon of the mixture and mix it back in with the tea. > > The question is, which of the two cups (if either) contains more of > its original contents, and WHY. They each contain the same amount of their original contents. For every drop of tea in the coffee-cup, there's a corresponding drop of coffee in the tea-cup; likewise, for every drop of tea missing from the tea-cup, there's a corresponding drop of coffee missing from the coffee-cup. _______ Al Tino !hou2f!tino