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| One at a time, from the lightest to the heaviest. (21 years ago, 19-Feb-04, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| (...) Great for the lightest people, but almost certainly guaranteeing the death of the heaviest, or someone before, because of the build-up of damage. On the other hand, if you go from heaviest to lightest, it's possible that the incremental damage (...) (21 years ago, 19-Feb-04, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| (...) I thought one of the restrictions was people had to go in "groups". JOHN (21 years ago, 19-Feb-04, to lugnet.off-topic.fun, FTX)
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| (...) Let's do some number-crunching, to illustrate. Let's say that the rope will take a maximum stress-load of one thousand (1,000) pounds, cumulative, before snapping. Let's futher assume we've got the following people, identified solely by their (...) (21 years ago, 19-Feb-04, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| (...) I just checked the original message. He wrote "*A* group of people must cross the bridge" emphasis mine. That means, "we have a group of people quantity unspecified, and all of them must get across this bridge in some manner to be determined." (...) (21 years ago, 19-Feb-04, to lugnet.off-topic.fun, FTX)
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