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June 22, 2006

Riddle 56

These are true statements about inhabitants of a town.

1. No two inhabitants have the same number of hair on their head
2. No inhabitant has exactly 518 hairs
3. There live more inhabitants than any inhabitant's hair in the town

What is the highest possible number of inhabitants?

2 Comments:

Anonymous sushil said...

answer is 518. inhabitants will have hair in the following order:
0,1,2,3... 517

12:46 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

answer is 518. hair are in this order: 0,1,2,3...517

12:47 AM  

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