On Thu, 09 Mar 2006 00:16:05 GMT, "rb608"
wrote:

"rb608" wrote in message
How much length would you need to add to the rope to raise it 6 inches off
the earth at all points?

The corrct answer is: The hotel has $25, the bellhop has $2, and each guest
has $1 for a total of $30. There is no missing dollar.

Joe F.


p.s. What I always loved about math (and yes, I'm a geek), is that nobody
needs to tell you if your answer is the right answer. When you understand
it, you already *know* if you have the right answer. But for the record,
the correct answer to the question I thought I posed is Pi (3.1415...) feet.


I'm still lost in visions of a rope fitting snugly around the earth. I
try seeing the supporting structure needed to keep the rope from
dipping into the oceans it must cross and my mind keeps coming up with
the highway to Hawaii or the Bridge to Nowhere.

It's as bad for me as the one about the conveyor belt with an airplane
on it and the belt increasing speed as the plane does, so it,
supposedly, can't take off. I kept imagining the belt going all
kablooey and me standing there with one of my favorite quotes: It
blowed up real good, dinnit it? (from someone named Ernest in some
movie I never saw.). The parts flying though the air, the plane being
whipped into the stratosphere by the flexing belt. Ah, things of
beauty.

Sorry, guys, back to your math.
--

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Really.