At 07:06 AM 7/25/02, Erik Reuter wrote:
>You have an infinite supply of cigarettes. You arrange N number of
>cigarettes so that every cigarette touches every other cigarette; what
>is the maximum possible N?
>
>ASSUMPTIONS: Cigarettes are 3 dimensional objects and have finite
>size in every dimension; further, assume cigarettes are perfect right
>cylinders of exact same size to an atomic level. You can assume the
>cigarettes are "sticky" and will stay exactly where you put them. For
>a cigarette to "touch" another, at least one atom has to be in direct
>contact with one atom of the other cigarette, so for example, you can
>NOT lay 4 cigarette's down flat on the table in a + (plus/cross) sign
And how many of them can you smoke before dying of emphysema or cancer?
--Ronn! :)
I always knew that I would see the first man on the Moon.
I never dreamed that I would see the last.
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