Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 beta 3/9/83; site sdcrdcf.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!floyd!harpo!seismo!hao!hplabs!sdcrdcf!markb From: markb@sdcrdcf.UUCP (Mark Biggar) Newsgroups: net.math,net.puzzle Subject: Re: Chain problem - clarification(?) Message-ID: <871@sdcrdcf.UUCP> Date: Tue, 28-Feb-84 11:54:36 EST Article-I.D.: sdcrdcf.871 Posted: Tue Feb 28 11:54:36 1984 Date-Received: Fri, 2-Mar-84 16:10:14 EST References: <222@pucc-i> <126@nwuxd.UUCP> Reply-To: markb@sdcrdcf.UUCP (Mark Biggar) Organization: System Development Corporation, Santa Monica Lines: 10 Why are all of you worried about chooseing random real numbers? A chain can only have lengths that are an integral multiple of a length some what less then the length of one link. Chains are not produceable in lengths of other than 1 link, 2 links, etc. Now does this amke any diffenence in the problem? Mark Biggar {allegra,ihnp4,sdcsvax,cbosgd,trw-unix}!sdcrdcf!markb