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Any of you monkeys want a banana?

Any of you monkeys want a banana?(81 KB)

See....math can be useful....
Posted at 21:11 on Sunday, August 10, 2003

I just heard from Cliff. He e-mailed to let me know they made it home ok. He also couldn't pass up the chance to correct my simultaneous arguments equation offered earlier. What's most funny about this is that it appears he actually thought about the question, and the following is an excerpt from the e-mail I received.

Oh, the number of arguments would be something more like:


p(p-1)
a = ----------
2

or for us computer folk: a = (p*(p-1))/2

Where (p) is the number of people and (a) is the maximum number of resulting simultaneous arguments :-)
In any case it makes for a noisy drive!


I think I'll try to graph it.;-)

Look for the expanded article in the next issue of Scienterrific American.