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There's a similar topic at SMG's forum. I thought I'd put one up here too. Keep you guys busy
I'll start with an easy one:
A bookworm is eating an encyclopaedia, starting from the first page all the way through to the last. He's eating in one straight line. The encyclopaedia exists of 10 parts, each part has 1000 pages, and is standing on a bookshelf in the usual order.
Question: how many pages will have a hole in them when the worm reaches the final page?
The way this question is worded, makes me think that the final page has not yet been eaten, but rather been arrived at. Because there are two pages on one sheet of paper, the worm has eaten 9,998 pages when it reaches the final page.
CESS.tk wrote:
(...) and is standing on a bookshelf in the usual order.
That means the first book is on the left, and the last one is on the right. BUT that also means the first page is on the right of the first book and the last page is on the left of the last book. That makes 8 * 1000 + 2 = 8002 pages with a hole in them.
There's that term in German as well, but as far as I know it comes from a worm, that eats bookpages??? Maybe I'm just mixing things up because there are many terms for worms in German and it is difficult to determine which are made up and which really exist... ::)
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