Re: Hey

In sci.math, Jim Spriggs
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wrote
on Wed, 27 Jul 2005 00:30:01 +0000 (UTC)
<42E6D5B9.83665E47@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
> "mensanator@xxxxxxxxxxx" wrote:
>>
>> nikki bentz wrote:
>> > Hi I am A single 17 year old looking for some one to talk to
>>
>> What do you want to talk about?
>
> She posts through The Math Forum which seems to make the usual Usenet
> "conversations" difficult or impossible.
>
> If she's a typical 17 year old girl, she wants to talk about fashion,
> soaps [*], "music" and boys.
>
> [* I think that's what they're called. I refer not to the cleansing
> material.]
>

One might also refer to them as "daytime serials". "Soaps",
IINM, refers to the fact that many of them were sponsored by
cleansing products, way back when. (Time was when women
would listen to baseball broadcasts. Of course when
advertisers discovered this... :-) )

However, I'm not sure how "typical" people are anymore, considering
the worldwide nature of this forum.

ObMath: A user posts to his uplink Usenet system.
Assuming that each Usenet system communicates
with exactly 11 others (its immediate uplink
and 10 downlinks, the leaves of which are the
subscribers), what is the maximum pathlength
from subscriber to subscriber? (Hint: what goes
up ...)
Answer: About 20 "hops". There are 6.5B = 6.5 * 10^9 people
worldwide. 11 levels (the root being level 0; the leaves would
be level 10) would be more than enough. To hop from 11 to 0
would require 10 hops (11-10, 10-9, 9-8, ..., 1-0), and
ditto for the downside.

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