5 Dec
2014
5 Dec
'14
1:57 p.m.
Cute! But I think one needs deductions/announcements to take place in rounds. Jim Propp On Thursday, December 4, 2014, Cris Moore <moore@santafe.edu> wrote:
You, I, and Mr. Apollinax are traveling on a train. He leans over to you and says, with a leer, "whisper a natural number into my ear." You do so. He then turns to me and asks me to do the same. I do.
He then claps his hands and says "Marvelous! Your numbers are distinct, and neither of you can deduce which one is larger."
Get it?
- Cris
p.s. I heard this from Thilo Gross...
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