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Raijinili
post Feb 2 2008, 06:21 AM
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Say that when you take pistachios, you take ten per handful, you eat the unshelled ones, take off the shells of the shelled ones, and drop the newly unshelled ones back into the bowl.
If you had a bowl of 100 shelled pistachios, how many grabs would it take to eat them all?


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post May 1 2010, 11:20 PM
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Every time I come back to this topic, I think, "Wait, people are still posting solutions? I thought the answer was given already..."

Shio: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y2ap3CJM9jQ
You lose points.

And reading the topic again, I confirmed the answer in post #10. I don't know why people are still posting.


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Raijinili   Math problem 83 or something   Feb 2 2008, 06:21 AM
jcdietz03   after thinking about this for a bit... isn't ...   Feb 2 2008, 02:02 PM
regruBgniK   Who eats pistachios without the shell?   Feb 2 2008, 04:47 PM
Raijinili   An example isn't a proof.   Feb 2 2008, 10:16 PM
jcdietz03   An example isn't a proof.It's been too lo...   Feb 2 2008, 11:17 PM
Raijinili   It's not true that there will be less than 10 ...   Feb 3 2008, 09:05 PM
jcdietz03   It is true. I meant to say "less than or equ...   Feb 3 2008, 09:45 PM
Raijinili   I'm the one asking the question here. It's...   Feb 8 2008, 11:53 PM
jcdietz03   This is your claim: It's not true that there w...   Feb 10 2008, 12:56 AM
Raij|Away   That's right. The < vs <= is a technica...   Feb 11 2008, 12:27 PM
DustyHaru   Is that shelled, the past participle of 'to sh...   Mar 26 2008, 07:29 PM
Raijinili   Shelled as in opposed to unshelled. I also specifi...   Mar 27 2008, 05:02 AM
Wally   No one eats pistachios like that. The question is...   Mar 27 2008, 10:09 PM
Raijinili   you moot   Mar 29 2008, 03:16 AM
DustyHaru   BORED Is it least number of grabs or most number ...   Mar 2 2010, 12:49 AM
aerozero   Use the Tootsie Roll Pop Owl Method.   Mar 2 2010, 01:35 AM
DustyHaru   "Due to the laws of probablity it could be an...   Mar 2 2010, 01:57 AM
Yuka   You have no way of dictating how many shelled and ...   Mar 2 2010, 05:23 PM
Lloyd Seegymont the Rasier   42.   Mar 2 2010, 05:38 PM
Raij|Away   If there are less than ten, you grab that many. I...   Mar 5 2010, 12:10 AM
H. Tsukiyono   Somewhere between 12 and 21 grabs. :V   Mar 15 2010, 05:52 PM
DustyHaru   You need at least 20 grabs, since you pick up each...   Mar 15 2010, 06:08 PM
H. Tsukiyono   I feel rather silly now. I diagrammed it wrong :V....   Mar 15 2010, 08:28 PM
Shiokazu   who fucking cares? the important thing is eating t...   May 1 2010, 12:10 AM
Elnendil   Isn't there an equation for this? I'll se...   May 1 2010, 03:39 AM
Elnendil   Every time I come back to this topic, I think, ...   May 2 2010, 01:43 AM
Shiokazu   math is not meant for me, bring something easier. ...   May 2 2010, 12:35 AM
Raijinili   You just missed the in-between case. In a case-by-...   May 5 2010, 03:15 AM
Elnendil   I'll keep that in mind.   May 6 2010, 03:31 AM


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