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The USD'''''A''''' once wanted to make cows p'''''r'''''oduce milk faster; th'''''e'''''ir best chance at improving the dair'''''y''''' industry.
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Suppose there are three sailors on weekend leave. They take it upon themselves to rent a motel room for drinking, fun, and discussions of both irradiated beef and inert shielding gas.
  
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They decided to c'''''o'''''ns'''''u'''''lt the foremost biologists '''''a'''''nd recombinant '''''D'''''NA technicians to build th'''''e'''''m a better cow. They assembled this team of great scientists, and ga'''''v'''''e them unl'''''i'''''mited funding. They requested r'''''a'''''re chemicals, weird bacteria, tons of quara'''''n'''''tine equipment--'''''t'''''here was a h'''''o'''''rrible typhus epidemic they sta'''''r'''''ted by accident--and, 2 ye'''''a'''''rs later, they '''''c'''''ame back w'''''i'''''th the "new, improved cow." I'''''t''''' had a milk production improvement of 2% over the orig'''''i'''''nal.
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Upon arrival, the desk clerk tells them that it will cost thirty dollars for the three of them. Each sailor pulls a ten-dollar bill from his wallet, giving it to the desk clerk. The sailors retire to their retreat, already discussing their latest applications of Argon.
  
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They then tried with the greatest Nobel Pri'''''z'''''e winning ch'''''e'''''mists around. They worked for six mo'''''n'''''ths, and, after requisitioning tons of '''''c'''''hemical equipment, and poisoning '''''h'''''alf the small t'''''o'''''wn in Col'''''o'''''rado where they were working with a toxic cloud from one of their experiment'''''s''''', th'''''e'''''y got a 5% improvement in milk output.
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A little while later, the desk clerk realizes he has made an error. The motel policy gives service members a five-dollar room rate discount, yet he forgot to apply the discount for the room that they have reserved. The clerk calls the busboy over, handing him five dollars and directing him to take the refund back to the sailors.
  
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The physicists tried for a year, and, after ten thousand co'''''w'''''s were subjected to rad'''''i'''''ation therapy, they got a 1% improvement in output.
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The busboy, with a healthy respect for opportunism, has no idea how to split up five dollars evenly amongst the three seamen. He does, however, devise a solution of giving each man a one dollar refund. This allows the busboy to pay the sailors for their discounted room and pocket the other two dollars for himself.
  
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Finally, in de'''''s'''''peration, th'''''e'''''y turned to the mathematicians. The foremost mathematician of his time offered to he'''''l'''''p them with the problem. Upon hearing the problem, he told the delegation that the'''''y''''' could come back in the morning and he would have solved the '''''p'''''roblem. In the morning, they came back, and he handed them a piece of paper with the computations for the new, 300% improved mi'''''l'''''k cow.
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He knocks on the door, returns a single dollar to each man, then goes about his business.
  
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The plans b'''''e'''''gan:
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Each sailor has now paid nine dollars (Original $10 - refunded $1).
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The busboy pocketed two dollars (Original $5 - refunded $3)
  
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"A Proof of the '''''A'''''ttainability of Increa'''''s'''''ed Milk Output from Bovin'''''e'''''s: Consider a spherical cow..."
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Each sailor paid nine dollars = $27 total
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The busboy kept two dollars = $2 total
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Where's the extra dollar?

Revision as of 19:30, 2 July 2019

Suppose there are three sailors on weekend leave. They take it upon themselves to rent a motel room for drinking, fun, and discussions of both irradiated beef and inert shielding gas.

Upon arrival, the desk clerk tells them that it will cost thirty dollars for the three of them. Each sailor pulls a ten-dollar bill from his wallet, giving it to the desk clerk. The sailors retire to their retreat, already discussing their latest applications of Argon.

A little while later, the desk clerk realizes he has made an error. The motel policy gives service members a five-dollar room rate discount, yet he forgot to apply the discount for the room that they have reserved. The clerk calls the busboy over, handing him five dollars and directing him to take the refund back to the sailors.

The busboy, with a healthy respect for opportunism, has no idea how to split up five dollars evenly amongst the three seamen. He does, however, devise a solution of giving each man a one dollar refund. This allows the busboy to pay the sailors for their discounted room and pocket the other two dollars for himself.

He knocks on the door, returns a single dollar to each man, then goes about his business.

Each sailor has now paid nine dollars (Original $10 - refunded $1). The busboy pocketed two dollars (Original $5 - refunded $3)

Each sailor paid nine dollars = $27 total The busboy kept two dollars = $2 total

Where's the extra dollar?

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