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Original Usenet message from alt.ascii-art, 20 Aug 1996.
Re: <><><><>Can ANYONE do this Math Problem, Please?<><><><>

Re: <><><><>Can ANYONE do this Math Problem, Please?<><><><>

In article <Pin...@wknc3.sca.ncsu.edu> Cindy <aww...@wknc3.sca.ncsu.edu> writes:


>Why am I even responding to this?  Oh well, the real answer is 2^20, it's 
>2^20+1 if you include yourself...

Actually, I think its 2^21 -1. Remember, at iteration 1, you tell 2 people, so 
the total is (2 + 1) 3. Iteration 2,  the 2 new people from i1 each tell 2 
people, so you have (4 + 2 + 1) 7. And so on.

How on earth did you pick this list of newsgroups to post to?

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From: ls...@neosoft.com (Steve Ellis)
Subject: Re: <><><><>Can ANYONE do this Math Problem, Please?<><><><>
Date: 1996/08/20
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