Posted by Ben C on 07/09/07 17:23

On 2007-07-09, Neredbojias <neredbojias@gmail.com> wrote:
> Well bust mah britches and call me cheeky, on Mon, 09 Jul 2007 09:54:15
> GMT dorayme scribed:
>
>>> I was under the assumption you didn't want numbers to that puzzler
>>> posted, but okay. 2000. Probably isn't optimal.
>>
>> What a nice round figure and neat where it is, 2 x 1000! No...
>> you won't solve quickly, it takes some persistence and the real
>> worth in all this is not the mere figure but the approach to it.
>> How it must be reasoned with... (now I am reminded of a line in
>> Pride and Prejudice where Elizabeth is besides herself over
>> Wickam's elopement with her 16 year old sister. He is a bit of a
>> scoundrel and she blurts out to her sister Jane, "How is a man
>> like that to be reasoned with?" The desert is like that, but
>> there is a way, and a more honourable one than the way Wickham
>> had to be dealt with.
>
> So all that means exactly what with regard to my number?

It's too big. I can do better than 2000.

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