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A camel with a less strict diet
Michiel de Bondt
A camel can carry bananas on its back. It can have bananas at a time in its stomach. For each mile the camel walks, the amount of bananas in its stomach decreases . As s…
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The Camel-Banana Problem
Michiel de Bondt
A camel can carry one banana at a time on its back. It is on a diet and therefore can only have one banana at a time in its stomach. As soon as it has eaten a banana it walks a mil…
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Exploring Mount Neverest
Michiel de Bondt
The problem `Exploring Mount Neverest' by Henry Ernest Dudeney is solved. Dudeney formulated the problem in the beginning of the 20th century and gave a non-optimal solution (witho…