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From: frederic@ubvax.UUCP (Frederic Bach)
Newsgroups: net.puzzle
Subject: How to win a bottle of Champagne
Message-ID: <179@ubvax.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 23-May-85 18:43:53 EDT
Article-I.D.: ubvax.179
Posted: Thu May 23 18:43:53 1985
Date-Received: Mon, 27-May-85 06:44:23 EDT
Organization: Ungermann-Bass, Inc., Santa Clara, CA
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Keywords: booze

I once won a bottle of Champagne by solving this
rather amusing problem.

   There once were two brothers herding a flock of
sheep. One day, they decided to sell them all in
the market. Each beast was sold for as many dollars
as sheep there originally were in the herd.
The total amount of money was in $10 bills, plus
less than $10 in $1 bills. The elder brother proceded
to share it. He took a $10 bill, then gave one to
his brother, then took one again, and so on till
he turned out taking the last $10 bill ; he then
gave all of the $1 bills to the youngster, who burst
out : "Hey, but you've got #@% dollars more than I have ".

How about now working out what he really said ?