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From: jens@moscom.UUCP (Jens Fiederer)
Newsgroups: net.puzzle
Subject: Re: A "logic puzzle"
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Date: Mon, 3-Feb-86 21:09:15 EST
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Posted: Mon Feb  3 21:09:15 1986
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The argument that we could have twins whose age is only minutes apart, and
still have an "oldest" child does not strike me as reasonable.  Either we
are reckoning age as an integer value, in which case two twins have the
same age, or we are looking at the real numbers, in which case the father
would have had to say, "AT THE SOUND OF THE TONE, the children's ages will
sum to 13, and their product will be your age!....BEEP"

Azhrarn