Wow, I can’t remember a discussion about li’l ole me! in the CR for a while! chuckling….
SJS- I remember, you mentioned him a ways back. Still not me, but I’d love to meet him. Invite us both!
Dr. Pepper- not offended. I had you pegged for early to mid thirties (based on the Doctorate and number of kids) but you could be younger. I figure you were teaching for a while and then switch careers, but I didn’t realize until your last post to me (on page 2) how recently you switched.
I solved the monkey riddle by brute force, using a program I wrote in Basic. No, not Visual Basic (didn’t exist then) or Q Basic (ditto), or C Basic (ditto). On sharetime, I might add, so the efficiency of your solution might have been nice, but alas- I am no mathematician.
smartcookie, if you were a statistician, you’d be absolutely right. But let’s not forgot the famous phrase, “Probability does not exist” (I know, it’s supposed to be all capitalized). I ain’t never been nobody’s li’l girl.
Ben Turah- nischt geshtoigen, nischt gefloiggen.