Damn! Sorry.

[davywavy]

The camel can carry 100lbs.

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[puddingcat.livejournal.com]

What a crap camel!
How much can you carry? I'd be tempted to walk & eat the camel.

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[davywavy.livejournal.com]

It's a small, weak camel, but as a poor trader from Cairo it is all you have.

Now stop moaning.

[winterthing.livejournal.com]

Can I trade it in for a donkey? I know they can carry more...

I'd be prepared to trade family as well.

[puddingcat.livejournal.com]

Shan't. How much can the camel eat at one sitting?

[robinbloke.livejournal.com]

I sense a solution of vulcan bomber logistical proportions...

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[davywavy.livejournal.com]

It munches continuously on it's nosebvag, consuming 1lb per mile at a constant rate.

[puddingcat.livejournal.com]

At a first attempt (i.e without thinking) I get 500lbs in Damascus and 500lbs left in Cairo with no way of moving it.

Can you stick the hay up the camel's bottom & set light to it?

[winterthing.livejournal.com]

I thought there would be a simple non-maths solution. I wondered if it might be

a) You don't need the camel you're on a river, but Damascus is landlocked from what I can tell

b) Why take hay from Cairo to Damascus when Damascus has tons of it already but I have no idea what the agricultural situation in the middle east is like.

I'm sure it can't be as mathmatical as it seems tho

[puddingcat.livejournal.com]

So how big is the nosebag?

Hang on...

[puddingcat.livejournal.com]

If the hay is in the nosebag, the camel's carrying it. So hay in nosebag plus hay on back must <=100lbs.

So you can't go even 50 miles, cos after you'd turned back for the next lot you'd end up with nothing at the part-way stage.

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[davywavy.livejournal.com]

It is. It is a purely mathematical question.

[jonnyargles.livejournal.com]

How long do you have? 'Coz over thirty years I'm guessing you could get a fair amount of hay from Cairo to Damascus

[robinbloke.livejournal.com]

In that case I've think I have the basic theory for the solution worked out, however the actual solution itself I don't have the brain power to work out right now, as I'm busy braingrinding a load of highly interesting memory maps.

[robinbloke.livejournal.com]

I give you thirty camels for your sister...

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[winterthing.livejournal.com]

Excellent! And now I have sold a sibling I have a fleet on camels.

*considers what sidelines she can dabble in to make this hay trading thing a bit more profitable, and contemplates whether shifting hay across continents is really the best way to earn a living*