On Thu, Jul 25, 2002 at 01:09:01PM +0100, Richard Baker wrote: > Erik said: > > > You have an infinite supply of cigarettes. You arrange N number of > > cigarettes so that every cigarette touches every other cigarette; what > > is the maximum possible N? > > Infinite. Just keep adding cigarettes to a pile and eventually it'll > collapse under its own gravitation to form a black hole. All the > cigarettes will then take up a total volume of zero and so be in > contact with each other. Then throw in the rest of your infinite pile > of them.
Let's add an assumption :-) You don't have enough cigarettes to reach critical mass for a singularity. -- "Erik Reuter" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.erikreuter.net/
