anglepose Posted March 18, 2006 Report Share Posted March 18, 2006 42 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ughaibu Posted March 18, 2006 Report Share Posted March 18, 2006 A famous answer to which many are seeking the question. I believe I've got to the root of the problem. Physicists have these two boxes, one containing a cat and the other a particle. When we open the first box the cat is dead or alive, before we open the second box two thirds of the particle are in each half of the box. This means that when we open the first box there are one and a half cats, if we keep opening and shutting the box the number of cats will increase until they crush or suffocate and all die. As the state of all dead cats contradicts the known physics of cats in boxes it clearly can not occur. Fortunately we know from a different theorem that the limit on cats is nine lives, so we actually have thirteen and a half cats in the box. As we're trying to get to the root of the problem we guess that the correct procedure is to take the root of cat lives, ie three, and multiply it by the cats giving a total of forty and a half. If we then factor in our uncertainty about the correctness of using the root of lives, ie half of three, we get our grand total of 42. So, that was the question. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GAHD Posted March 20, 2006 Report Share Posted March 20, 2006 How many lives must a man live through, before he can try to kill 'Dent.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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