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The Fallen Angel
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I think we are going to need a bigger archive to store all these!
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The Fallen Angel
Guest
Now here is a problem!! Miss Strictland at St Melanias is going to give each girl in her maths class six of the best until they come up with the correct solution to the problem on the board. It's her way of raising standards. I think poor Henrietta is soon to part company with her knickers and taste miss Strictland's cane. Is there a mathematician in the house who could at least solve the first part of the problem? The girls of St Melanias are counting on you...
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Praefectus Praetorio
R.I.P. Brother of the Quill
So. Is the Coffee Shop a place to discuss food? If so, here is a video of making Figgy Pudding, just in time for the holidays (it should rest for weeks). Any of our older Brits here play the "Snap-Dragon" as a nipper?
As a non-mathematician with a pie and a knife, I reckon 20.Now here is a problem!! Miss Strictland at St Melanias is going to give each girl in her maths class six of the best until they come up with the correct solution to the problem on the board. It's her way of raising standards. I think poor Henrietta is soon to part company with her knickers and taste miss Strictland's cane. Is there a mathematician in the house who could at least solve the first part of the problem? The girls of St Melanias are counting on you...
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Praefectus Praetorio
R.I.P. Brother of the Quill
After 100 cuts my pie looks like Apple Brown Betty with a red ass! Although a comely babe's ass with 100 cuts would be downright bloody!Now here is a problem!! Miss Strictland at St Melanias is going to give each girl in her maths class six of the best until they come up with the correct solution to the problem on the board. It's her way of raising standards. I think poor Henrietta is soon to part company with her knickers and taste miss Strictland's cane. Is there a mathematician in the house who could at least solve the first part of the problem? The girls of St Melanias are counting on you...
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Loxuru
Graf von Kreuzigung
A pie with 100 cuts? Are the owners of the Coffee Shop trying to make more profit out of one pie? I hope I still get a piece of pie of the usual decent size with my coffee!
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montycrusto
Guest
All I know is you can use a square pie to work out the size of a circle. Something like that. 
I’m not a mathematician.
I’m not a mathematician.
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montycrusto
Guest
In b4 @twonines says it:
Bye, bye, Melissa’s sweet pie,
You got sliced a hundred times
And I’m wondering why.
So in how many fragments do you now lie?
Singin’ mathematics still makes me cry...
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twonines
LIMERICUS
In the War when I was growing up, brandy was definitely unavailable, but I can remember my mother making Christmas puddings like that, having saved up fruit ,flour and fat during the year from our meagre rations.
Interestingly, one of the local breweries used to place a notice in the newspaper, stating the date and time when the women could take their puddings to be boiled in one of their large copper vats.
Obviously, this was in the happy carefree days before the advent of the odious multi-national brewers.
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The Fallen Angel
Guest
Just had an urgent message from poor Henrietta..."Melissa please help me!! this mad psychopath behind me is going to turn my bum into a mass of quivering bloodied flesh...please help me..."
Oh dear! I see what she means. Little time left. With her pencil and paper Eulalia was closest to solving Problem A but it becomes impossible after a little while so you need a little cunning. If we let c=number of cuts and p=number of pieces then we can soon draw up a table like this..
c p
0 1
1 2
2 4
3 7
4
5
6
Now you see a pattern! Don't you? There is still time to save Henrietta!
Oh dear! I see what she means. Little time left. With her pencil and paper Eulalia was closest to solving Problem A but it becomes impossible after a little while so you need a little cunning. If we let c=number of cuts and p=number of pieces then we can soon draw up a table like this..c p
0 1
1 2
2 4
3 7
4
5
6
Now you see a pattern! Don't you? There is still time to save Henrietta!
twonines
LIMERICUS
A pretty young whore named Nell
Was caught and sent to Bridewell.
There she was stripped
And cruelly whipped,
And made to beat hemp as well.
twonines
LIMERICUS
Why would we do that?
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montycrusto
Guest
Yes, it looks like the regulation School tartan.. difficult to tell with her skirt up round her waist..
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The Fallen Angel
Guest
That's the naughty step for Monty!Yes, it looks like the regulation School tartan.. difficult to tell with her skirt up round her waist..
T
The Fallen Angel
Guest
Well done Cran. The first to come to Henrietta's rescue!
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montycrusto
Guest
I’m wondering what Melissa-flavoured demerits might be like...
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The Fallen Angel
Guest
Congratulations to Old Slave who has come up with the simplest solution of BOTH problems. If people are wondering how he got 5051 he probably used 1+2+3+4+...+99+100=100x(100+1)/2 =5050. Then add 1 to get 5051 which by the way is a big prime number. Henrietta is very relieved.