Marko Rauhamaa wrote:
The pile originally had -4 coconuts. The first sailor threw one to the monkey, leaving -5 coconuts in the pile. He took his share (-1 coconut) out and put the remaining -4 coconuts back in the big pile.
Sounds a bit like Hawking radiation. A coconut-anticoconut pair is created, and before they can recombine, the monkey grabs the coconut, leaving the sailor with the anticoconut. Unfortunately, it's pointless fot the sailor to eat the anticocounut, as it would ony make him hungrier, and the coconut is now inside the monkey's event horizon, never to be seen again. -- Greg -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
