From: utzoo!decvax!harpo!esquire!nrh
Newsgroups: net.math
Title: "Travelling Bee Story"
Article-I.D.: esquire.380
Posted: Mon Aug  9 13:49:47 1982
Received: Tue Aug 10 03:34:23 1982
References: sii.145

A friend told me that John Von Neumann was given this problem once
by a reporter.  Von Neumann replied with the correct answer immediately.
The reporter remarked that most people would have tried to come up with
the sum of the distances that the bee travels.

Von Neumann replied: "That's how I did it".

(Sorry if I don't have the Von Neumann name spelled correctly).