Timeline for Math puzzles for dinner
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| Jul 1, 2013 at 11:53 | comment | added | Ben | Right, it is remarkably easier to think about a finite set of marbles. | |
| Jun 30, 2013 at 11:42 | comment | added | user34804 | @Ben: O, what a fool I was! Consider simply every glass containing 100 marbles, red and white, at the beginning, and 100 marbles of both colours, at the end. Really no stirring necessary! | |
| Jun 29, 2013 at 17:21 | comment | added | Ben | @Hilbert: Well, the solution works even without perfect stirring. | |
| Jun 29, 2013 at 11:47 | comment | added | user34804 | @Ben: Why don't you have to stir? First I was surprised. But the simplest solution is this: Take a very big teaspoon holding all red whine. | |
| Oct 27, 2010 at 17:09 | comment | added | Ben | You don't even have to stir perfectly | |
| Jun 24, 2010 at 4:59 | comment | added | algori | This is a classic so chances are everyone will know this at a dinner. | |
| Jun 24, 2010 at 4:47 | history | answered | Douglas S. Stones | CC BY-SA 2.5 |