[net.puzzle] Balls in the bowl

ags@pucc-i (Seaman) (02/15/84)

It's time to get the ball rolling on a new discussion...

You see before you a large empty bowl, two machines marked A and B, and a
*huge* supply of balls.

1.  At one minute before noon, machine A places 100 balls into the bowl.
    Machine B removes one ball from the bowl.

2.  At 1/2 minute before noon, machine A places 100 balls into the bowl.
    Machine B removes one ball from the bowl.
    .
    .
    .
N.  At 1/N minute before noon, machine A places 100 balls into the bowl.
    Machine B removes one ball from the bowl.
    .
    .
    .

It is now noon.  How many balls are there in the bowl?
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Dave Seaman
..!pur-ee!pucc-i:ags

"Against people who give vent to their loquacity 
by extraneous bombastic circumlocution."

mcmillan@eosp1.UUCP (John McMillan) (02/16/84)

How many balls in the bowl at noon?  Not to worry; according to Zeno,
it will never quite be noontime.
					- Toby Robison
					allegra!eosp1!robison
					decvax!ittvax!eosp1!robison
					princeton!eosp1!robison
					(NOTE! NOT McMillan; Robison.)

rcj@burl.UUCP (R. Curtis Jackson) (02/16/84)

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nf gurer jnf ab fcrpvsvrq yvzvg ba A.

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