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May 12, 2003 1:06:48 PM from WinCustomize ForumsWinCustomize Forums
Twice Four and Twenty blackbirds were sitting in a tree,

I shot one seventh of them with a shotgun

How many blackbirds remained



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Reply #1 May 12, 2003 1:11:29 PM
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goodmorphing wonders if it is going to take Hoppity that long to gather up the ones he got and count them?
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Reply #3 May 12, 2003 1:17:11 PM
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6/7 of them?
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Reply #4 May 12, 2003 1:23:28 PM
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Twenty-Four remain
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Reply #5 May 12, 2003 1:30:10 PM
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Unless the dead ones were splattered all over the tree, in which case you still have all 28 - just four of 'em are dead.
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Reply #6 May 12, 2003 1:31:54 PM
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So far so not good



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Reply #7 May 12, 2003 1:36:03 PM
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none of them - at least until they calm down and return to the tree. This is assuming the dead ones fall out of the tree, of course.



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Reply #8 May 12, 2003 1:39:58 PM
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4 remain....twice four = 8 and twenty = 28. one seventh of 28 = 4.
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Reply #9 May 12, 2003 1:43:15 PM
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I guess you'd better define remained - remained alive, remained in the tree, etc. Ambiguity reigns.
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Reply #10 May 12, 2003 1:48:35 PM
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Confucious say when question is hard, answer is also hard.

Hus thinks 1/7th of 28-4 * the number of dead bird + the number of alive ones less the twice of the four the...man where did I get my edjumacation?
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Reply #11 May 12, 2003 1:50:37 PM
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Lateral Thinking Guys & Gals
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Reply #12 May 12, 2003 1:57:20 PM
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Confusious should have said ,

When question is Lateral answer is easy




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Reply #13 May 12, 2003 1:57:26 PM
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goodmorphing thinks none of those birds stayed. As soon as they heard the shot they got out of there....
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Reply #14 May 12, 2003 1:58:36 PM
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goodmorphing 'cept maybe the poor birds that Hoppity got!
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Reply #16 May 12, 2003 2:06:10 PM
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hrm - wrong? Im never wrong.
assumptions :
Number : (4+20) birds or (2*4)+20 birds? So 48 or 28 since you killed 1/7th i assume the number is divisible by 7 without remainder and the number of birds is 28.

The dead ones aren't going anywhere so you killed 4.
The live ones aren't gonna stick around to get shot again, so they dont remain.

but does a dead blackbird count as a blackbird or just a generic bird corpse?

anyway - I say 4 remain, but I still agree with LS_Boreas
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Reply #17 May 12, 2003 2:07:21 PM
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and if thats not right Im gonna be wondering what time zone Hoppity is in so I know when friday starts
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Reply #18 May 12, 2003 2:11:36 PM
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No defining of Question is needed, it remains a lateral question, it has been answered.

you just need to think sideways



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Reply #19 May 12, 2003 2:11:50 PM
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oh - one more thing - Lateral thinging is just logical thinking with no assumptions.
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Reply #20 May 12, 2003 2:14:17 PM
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BTW

An object is still a object



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Reply #21 May 12, 2003 3:22:41 PM
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Reply #22 May 12, 2003 3:32:57 PM
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Twice four and twenty is 48.
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Reply #23 May 12, 2003 3:37:01 PM
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Twice 4 and twenty might be twenty-eight.
Is it 2 * 4 + 20, or 2 * (4 + 20)?
Or does it even matter? All of them is all of them.
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Reply #24 May 12, 2003 3:43:08 PM
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Well, there is a few problems with the question to start with: How does a blackbird "sit", anyways?

But assuming a bunch of birds were acttually sitting down in a tree, I doubt anyone could shoot 7 of them, as all the other would have flown away from the very first shot.

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Reply #25 May 12, 2003 5:12:20 PM
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